Re: [Dri-users] Which way to upgrade? XFree86, X.org, or distro?

[Nik <gra...@ba...>]

On Thursday 13 January 2005 12:51, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 January 2005 20:16, Nik wrote:
> > > If 3D acceleration does not work with X.org 6.7 it would be interesting
> > > to know which hardware you're referring to.
> >
> > Gigabit GV-N57 series (nVidia GForce FX 5700 GPU)
> > I didn't see any errors in Xorg.log. The driver it was loading was "nv",
> > which I understand is (or should be) the correct one.
>
> There are no DRI drivers for nVidia hardware.  nVidia makes a proprietary
> driver that does GL acceleration, but it's closed source, and not based on
> the DRI architecture.
>
> - ajax

Aha - thank you for the information. That would explain things.

The other cards I am trying to get working are ATI cards, and I have 
downloaded DRI drivers for those, so I'll continue trying to get them 
working. Looks like the proprietary drivers are the only option for nVidua.

Cheers!
Nik.