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Comment quirks in NVidea & X11 (Score 1) 201

I've been happy with my GeForce 4 card, once I determined the following about X11's support for it:
  • X.org's NV driver (at least the initial versions) didn't support automatic screen-off with my LCD display; it'd blank the screen but not power it down;
  • Nvidea's proprietary driver for X11 would powerdown the screen, but couldn't handle anything put out by video4linux (in kernel 2.4);
  • XFree86's NV driver in version 4.5.0 and newer handles both DRI screen-powerdown and v4l output perfectly.
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