[PLUG] Need Help Starting X on Rebuilt Box

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, alan wrote:

> It really depends on what you want to run.  If you are just running it as
> a stand alone server, then the nv driver will work OK.  (Not great, but it
> runs. Slow, but stable.) If you expect to run anything that needs hardware
> acceleration (like OpenGL, Beryl/Compiz/Compiz-Fusion, games, etc.) then
> you will want the commercial driver. Also, if you are using the absolute
> current version of X (the one released within the last week), you will
> need to wait until the next release of the commercial driver because it
> does not support the new ABI.

   Thank you, Alan, for the insight. There's nothing special I run here, but
X would just not start with the provided 'nv' driver. The commercial one
works, and that's all that matters to me.

Rich

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