Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

From: Johann Koenig (explosive_at_hvc.rr.com)
Date: 12/12/03

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    Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:02:10 -0500
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    On Thursday December 11 at 06:35pm
    Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:

    > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
    > > I originaly thought about bying radeon (9500, or 9700) but when I've
    > > searched the mailing list I saw there were a lot of problems with
    > > the ATI drivers too, so I've decided to stick with nvidia (known
    > > evil against new evil...)
    >
    > Well, known evil is easy to fix and does. ATI drivers are pretty
    > solid. nvidia drivers are closed and buggy, so while it's known evil,
    > it's not something we can do anything about but boycott.

    Although I have not had a chance to deal with the ATI drivers, Nvidia's
    have been rock-solid for me, and provide excellent performance. I have
    never had a serious problem with the stock installer, and my display is
    just beautiful. Just because its 'binary only' (which it is not)[1] does
    not mean that it isn't an excellent driver.

    [1] see attachment for a list of files included in the installer, after
    running 'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --extract-only,' as
    listed by 'find . > ~/nvidia'
    Yes, there are a lot of precompiled modules, but should there not be one
    for your kernel, the installer will compile one for you

    I'm sorry, I retract that. It seems there is a precompiled nv-kernel.o
    which is used to build the kernel module. But at least it performs
    better than ATI's. 

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