Re: rivafb module

[Ken Keefe <kaje@digitalfamily.org>]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:13 -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:25:07PM -0600, Ken Keefe wrote:
> > So, I am tweaking my new Fedora 3 installation on my laptop and I
> > downloaded nVidia's driver script, because the nvidia driver that comes
> > packaged with FC3 wasn't using direct rendering and GL apps were slow.
> 
> OK, stop right there...  If you are running FC3, you *really* don't
> want to use the nvidia installer.  Point apt or yum at rpm.livna.org's
> testing repository (and stable while you are at it, but right now you
> definitely need testing) and install kernel-module-nvidia-`uname -r`.
> 
I did do this and direct rendering stopped working. So, I was getting
terrible GL performance. What the hell, I'll try it again and see if
something else has changed...

Ken

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