I upgraded my Dapper and imagine my surprise...

[Lee Revell]

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.

Lee