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Re: Issues with the recent kernel and proprietary nvidia drivers
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Jeff Siddall <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Siddall <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:00:44 -0400
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On 03/25/2013 12:41 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> We are forced to use the Nvidia proprietary driver for two reasons:
>
> 1.  We use the switched stereoscopic 3D mode of "professional" Nvidia
> video cards with the external Nvidia 3D switching emitter for the
> stereoscopic 3D "shutter glass" mode of various applications that
> display stereoscopic 3D images (both still and motion).
>
> 2.  We need to load Nvidia CUDA in order to use the CUDA computational
> functions of Nvidia GPU compute cards in our GPU based compute engines.
>   The Nvidia CUDA system appears to require the proprietary Nvidia driver.

Yup, I run the proprietary driver for VDPAU support.  If anyone knows 
how to get that from the open source driver I would like to know.

Jeff

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