NVIDIA 304.xx

[Sérgio Basto]

On Sáb, 2013-04-06 at 19:54 +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: 
> 2013/4/6 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>
>         On Sex, 2013-04-05 at 10:06 +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>         > There is a 173.14.37 version available, but for the 304xx
>         legacy
>         > serie, It still need some rework to be introduced in F-19.
>         
>         
>         Still not understand if I need 304.xx or if 173.xx will do ,
>         but 173.xx 
> Both will work but the 173xx is the last driver to support geforce5
> whereas the 304xx serie is the last driver to support geforce 6 and 7.
> 
> 
>         is not complete ancient and we hope Nouveau drive take care of
>         that.
>         (yes I'm suggesting in drop it :) ) 
> Yes, maintaining legacy series is annoying, specially as none will
> advertise anything higher than opengl 2.1 or vdpau feature wise. And
> the more annoying is the 173xx serie that doesn't support xrandr, and
> IIRC have some issue with modern desktops. So nouveau should be a good
> solution hardware supported by legacy drivers.
> 
> 
> But performance wise, the nvidia driver might still be better for some
> hardware, so as soon as nvidia support newer kernel/xorg server I
> don't mind to keep legacy series within the repository. And letting
> users do their own choice.
> 
> 
OK, but about nvidia-304xx review, what do you think will be different
of Nvidia package for F18 ? is just the same adding -304 ? like we can
copy from -173 ?

Many thanks,
-- 
Sérgio M. B.