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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] Am now experiencing random lockups...
From:       N Smethurst <nick.smethurst () free ! fr>
Date:       2003-03-09 19:21:35
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Out of interest, what kind of 3D performance difference are you guys 
getting between the XFree and the Nvidia drivers? Since installing rc2 I 
have been using the Xfree drivers and it's like someone has taken my 
geforce 4 out and replaced it with an old S3 or something.

Le Dimanche 9 Mars 2003 20:12, Buchan Milne a écrit :
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, jokerman64 wrote:
> > > (P.S. could you set Kmail 1.5 to wrap lines?)
> >
> > true, it is want as opposed to need but the way to fix a problem is
> > not to avoid (as I so often do) but to go looking for a solution. And
> > in any case I'm not going to sacrifice opengl support for stabilty on
> > cooker. The whole point is to break stuff and find out why (or report
> > it so that someone else can).
>
> I was not meaning to do away with OpenGL forever, just to try and build
> yuor rpm while running with the nv driver (it might be best to reboot
> too to ensure that the loading of the NVidia driver does not affect it,
> you may need to remove it from your /etc/modules also) so that we can
> either eliminate nvidia as the cuplrit, or confirm that it is. If it is,
> you could then try a different release of the drivers, or on a different
> kernel.
>
> Regards,
> Buchan


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