368399 – nvidia guide suggestions

Bug 368399 - nvidia guide suggestions

Summary: nvidia guide suggestions

Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other documents (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Docs Team

URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-g...
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Reported:	2011-05-22 22:09 UTC by vik
Modified:	2013-07-22 13:31 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description vik 2011-05-22 22:09:25 UTC

Not a bug, but a helpful update to the Nvidia guide:

1) under your "Enabling nvidia Support" section, you might want to
mention the use flag vdpau as well.  This use flag allows mplayer and
other applications like mythtv to utilize hardware acceleration for
Nvidia cards--it is newer than xvmc and supposed to be higher
performance.

2) under your "Configuring the X Server" section, you may want to
mention nvidia-xconfig for generating an intial /etc/X11/xorg.conf
file.  Then have the user perform the modifications mentioned in that
section.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-07-22 13:31:14 UTC

The nvidia-guide is now on the Gentoo Wiki, https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVidia/nvidia-drivers