I got so fed up with nVidia that I hopped over the pricewatch.com and
found myself a deal on an S3 Savage4 to replace my Viper 550. That 550
replaced a Virge DX card on my router system where accelerated graphics
are neither required nor desired. Until nVidia changes their ways with
regards to development of their drivers, I'm going to avoid them in any
future graphics card decisions. (I also stopped recommending them to
even Windows users. But that's because I don't play nice sometimes.)
Tom Eastman wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:57:10PM -0700, John W wrote:
> > I have also heard that if you create a file called desktop in
> > /etc/sysconfig and put the line DESKTOP=GNOME that this will enable gdm
> > assuming have Gnome installed. Then you can run OpenGL apps from there
> > without issue from runlevel 5. So I've heard.
>
> Thanks... that did indeed fix the problem, I just switched from KDM to
> GDM and so far (after a thorough 2 minutes of testing) it seems to be
> working.
>
> I agree the nVidia drivers are an absolute nightmare.
>
> About once every two or three days my computer will completely lock up
> thanks to nvidia. I don't think this will ever go away, and it's quite
> depressing. I use ReiserFS, which seems to lessen the impact of all the
> hot-reboots. When it happens I can't even ssh or telnet into my
> computer to kill it... it's a total system lock... rather depressing
> when your working on an assignment or something!
>
> Thanks for your help... good luck with your own personal nightmare!
>
> Tom
