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loftwyr
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 Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject: Forcedeth versus Nvidia on nforce3 |
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I was wondering if people had opinions on which is better: forcedeth or nvidia drivers.
Right now, I'm using the forcedeth drivers but that' just becuase it was there and I didn't have to install anything.
Which do you find is better?
BTW, arguments on binary versus open source >/dev/null, I'm interested in features and efficiency. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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loftwyr,
I think I would stick with the forcedeth driver. nVidia have begun to submit patches for it. Maybe the nvidia driver will just die of neglect?
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Birtz
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:21 am Post subject: |
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Actually, I had problems with forcedeth on 2.6.9 vanilla kernel series. Driver didn't came up when link was up (nothing in the logs either), note that on driver inserting link was down (I have also tested this with built-in kernel driver). So I had to use NForce provided driver (nvnet). I am now on 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 and forcedeth is just fine. I'll stuck with kernel driver, though nvidia provided driver for video rocks, nforce drivers sucks especially nvsound. I doubt they'll ever release ALSA version of it.
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