nv driver status

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 13:08, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> On Mit, 2006-10-18 at 16:44 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> > Also, is there any case when one really must install the nvidia driver
> > for 2D-only reasons not involving Xvideo? I am asking because I am a
> > maintainer of the LFS LiveCD and must have a good answer to the question
> > why I provide the proprietary driver installer on the CD. The answer of
> > the form "such-and-such users cannot get seamonkey and xchat running on
> > nv driver with refresh rate higher than 60 Hz, with DVI, and/or at the
> > native LCD resolution" would be considered good enough. "there are users
> > that cannot...." would not.
>
> Dual-head is not working at all with the "nv" driver, AFAIK, but that
> might not be the crucial factor for the LiveCD.
>
It's crucial if you want to run a laptop. Pluging in a extern monitor rarely 
works with the "nv" driver. At least on this Nforce3 machine you need to 
manually set the laptop to extern-monitor-only before launching X, something 
hard to do during booting. As a result the only recommended Nvidia driver for 
laptops are the "nvidia" binary driver.

`Allan