I upgraded my Dapper and imagine my surprise...

[paul cooke]

On Friday 10 February 2006 18:33, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:00 +0000, paul cooke wrote:
> > On Friday 10 February 2006 14:41, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> > > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:59:54 +1100
> > >
> > > Sasha Tsykin <psychosushi at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > > > Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> > > > > ...to find that 3D xscreensavers now work with the nv driver.  Does
> > > > > this mean that I may remove the nVidia glx legacy driver now?
> > > > >
> > > > > Cybe
> > > >
> > > > no
> > > >
> > > > Sasha
> > >
> > > Hmmm, short and to the point.
> > >
> > > OK, why not?  If 3D functionality is now included in the nv driver what
> > > does having the nVidia legacy driver do for one?  And is this change
> > > going to go forward?  If so, a lot of nVidia users would like to know
> > > about it, I'm sure.
> >
> > It's software 3D (extremely slow), NOT accelerated 3D... for that you
> > have to use the nvidia driver, NOT the nv driver.
> >
> > come back to us with your glxgears frame rate under that software 3D...
> > and we'll have a laugh... :)
> >
> > ps. to get the glxgears frame rate use the following command:
> > glxgears -printfps
> >
> > this is what I get with the nvidia driver:
> > |paulc at broken-drum:~$ glxgears -printfps
> > |13586 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2717.025 FPS
> >
> > windowed
> >
> > |1125 frames in 5.0 seconds = 224.866 FPS
> >
> > full screen 1280x1024
>
> There are many, many people who bought their PCs for doing real work and
> don't care about the lack of hardware accelerated 3D - they would rather
> run a truly free software OS than install proprietary drivers.
>

troll alert...

> Lee