nv driver status

[Jürg Billeter]

On Mit, 2006-10-18 at 16:44 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Also, is there any case when one really must install the nvidia driver 
> for 2D-only reasons not involving Xvideo? I am asking because I am a 
> maintainer of the LFS LiveCD and must have a good answer to the question 
> why I provide the proprietary driver installer on the CD. The answer of 
> the form "such-and-such users cannot get seamonkey and xchat running on 
> nv driver with refresh rate higher than 60 Hz, with DVI, and/or at the 
> native LCD resolution" would be considered good enough. "there are users 
> that cannot...." would not.

Dual-head is not working at all with the "nv" driver, AFAIK, but that
might not be the crucial factor for the LiveCD.

Jürg