On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:21:15 -0600 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles swears it's always needed for AMD systems. I've only
> found it to be needed in the rare occaisons when I have the nvidia
> driver installed. It's not needed with the XFree driver.
I use it on all but 1 of my systems.
This is not an X cure-all.
For me it prevents random and total X lock-ups.
I do agree though that it is not necessary if you are not using the
proprietary nvidia drivers, or in the case of other cards if you are not
using DRI/3d hardware accel
Charles
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