Re: NVIDIA Driver 1.0-6111 fix

From: Grzegorz Kulewski (kangur_at_polcom.net)
Date: 09/05/04

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    Date:	Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:39:23 +0200 (CEST)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

    On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

    > On Sad, 2004-09-04 at 22:22, Lee Revell wrote:
    >> I have never understood why these people don't just run Windows. I have
    >> also never understood why people make so much noise about having to use
    >> a closed source driver to play A CLOSED SOURCE GAME! What's next, a
    >> petition to open the UT2004 source? Sheesh...
    >
    > Because a lot of them happen to like running things on Linux, or having
    > the webserver still work while they are blasting aliens. You could ask a
    > few of them. Thats a rather good idea when you don't understand why
    > people do something. They also play a lot of open source games - bzflag,
    > cube, flightgear (which does need a high end video card to do well),
    > gl-117, neverball etc. Take a look at the happypenguin website some day.

    Yes. Also Linux has often better performance and is way more smooth than
    Windows. I am running vanilla-rc-bk with -ck patches (and some others) and
    I can download or compile something and play my favourite game (at the
    same time) without any problems.

    Also not everybody have enought money to buy Windows (and all legal
    applications that every normal Windows user must have).

    And when I am using Linux I can forget about the treat that somebody will
    find my IP and will (automatically) compromise my system and install some
    worm (for example to send spam to LKML) in it. Games often have security
    holes too and if I run them on Linux on my user account I am sure that, in
    the worst scenarion, somebody will gain my normal user rights (or my
    normal game user rights) instead of "root" in Windows.

    >> I suspect many of these users are ricers who tweak CFLAGS and compare
    >> benchmark scores all day, and cannot bear to use the open source driver
    >> if it will make their machine 1% slower. I was surprised to find that
    >
    > There is certainly a strong Gentoo gaming contingent.

    I am running Gentoo. I have very conservative CFLAGS and I am not
    benchmarking my system and comaring results with friends. I am using
    Gentoo mainly because it has very big amount of software "packaged", I can
    choose what software I am installing on my box (nobody will force me to
    install esd - not needed with ALSA and often harmful - just because 1000
    apps in my distribution are compiled with it), software is compiled from
    sources (its open*_source_* not openRPM or openDEB), and new versions
    of apps are appearing constantly not with 6 months release cycle. Also
    Gentoo has very good (but can-be-better) installer/deinstaller.

    Yes, I am using nvidia binary only modules. But there was some time when
    nvidia binary module was not supporting 4k stacks in kernel. And I was
    using some -bk kernel that had this option and I turned it on. So I tried
    the nv X driver and later framebuffer driver. Both were absolutelly
    useless. One was freezing my box constantly and the second also had some
    mayor problems. And the quality of picture in both of them was worst than
    bad. One of them displayed some "moving background" on search
    subpages of lkml.org instead of normal background with nvidia binary
    drivers - this can yield to epilepsia or other illness in very short time.
    Of course I was unable to play my favourite tuxracer (OPENSOURCE). So I
    was forced to return to nvidia binary only driver as soon as they provided
    fixed one.

    And I am using nvidia binary only driver for nearly 4 years on my GeForce
    2 and I have seen only 2 or 3 oopses caused by this driver. And I am using
    very experimental (-mm or -vanilla-bk) kernels with strange patches from
    time to time. Nearly all ooopses were reproductible with untainted kernel.

    Grzegorz Kulewski

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