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On 29 May 2011 21:15, Mark Knecht  wrote:

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> OK, I understand but personally I wouldn't worry about it. There is

> great support at NVidia for Linux and they're not going to drop that

> just because a new version of X came out. NVidia CUDA is huge in

> finance, 3D design, medical, etc., and a lot/most of that is Linux. If

> the newest versions of X are having trouble then that will get worked

> out quickly. On Gentoo I'm using xorg-server-1.9.5 with no problems

> using 270.41.19. I see xorg-server-1.10.5 in portage but it's still

> marked as testing so I haven't bothered with it.

>

> Being that there are no recent real-time kernels I think the use of

> NVidia isn't as much of a problem as it used to be years ago.

> Personally I don't need the real-time kernel anymore. The standard

> kernel is fast enough for my needs. (Sub-5mS) Being that NVidia works

> well with the standard kernel I'm pretty happy here. I suspect that

> properly setup your 7200GT will work fine. (I.e. - do whatever it was

> designed to do.)

>

Just for reference, I use the same version of the nvidia-drivers on

xorg-server 1.10.2 without any problems. Had to patch the

nvidia-drivers to work with the realtime kernel (because of some

syntax changes), but once the next realtime kernel version is out, it

should be back to normal.

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