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Hello,
I wanted to find out what peoples experiences are /were in relation to GUI environment with modern 3d gpu's such as nVidia and ATI.
Which environment do you reccomend for 3d.
Which low resource consuming environments are best?
I ask becasue I presently use KDE on Slack 10. I have a bit of trouble installing nVidia drivers for it.
The NVidia stuff runs perfectly for me (GeForce4 440MX) on any of the major window managers. (KDE, Gnome, IceWM, Enlightenment, etc.)
I normally use KDE. (I love Enlightenment's Iconify feature (Flip, Flip, Flip...) and I like the efficiency of IceWM but I just feel more comfortable with KDE)
you don't install nvidia drivers for kde, or gnome or whatever. you install nvidia drivers for the XWindows system. the newest nvidia drivers use a script to install and you can't have an xserver running. it's a straight console install. there may be workarounds for that, but i'm not aware of any. then you need to configure your X configuration file. that's done manually in a text editor. when everything is all configured correctly, you should be able to get into the gui and it doesn't matter which DE or WM you use.
search the forums, there's plenty of topics dealing with installing nvidia drivers as well as with google.
More specifically, you find out the runlevels that your system uses for console and for X by reading /etc/inittab and then use telinit (or sometimes just using init directly) to switch. Then you run the script, edit the XF86Config, and telinit back to the runlevel with X.
In my case, it was
Code:
telinit 3
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run
vim /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
telinit 5
You change the driver from vesa or nv to nvidia and then make sure that certain modules are loaded and that certain others aren't. (I don't remember which ones but you should be able to get the list back by re-running the install package and choosing help if you've already passed that stage.)
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