On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 @ 11:04am (-), Colin Law wrote:
CL> Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
CL>
CL> >Yes, me. I just started putting together a page to archive my progress at:
CL> >
CL> >http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/apple_cinema_23inch/
CL> >
CL> >I'm making use out of time while my piece-of-crap nvidia card (no offence to
CL> >nVidia, I just have a POS card) cools down. The fan stopped spinning and it
CL> >overheated and crashed my box. Anyway have a look at some of the pics on the
CL> >page and I'll try to get it updated as soon as I can get it functional under
CL> >unix. I'm going to try to get it to work in:
CL> >
CL> >*) Redhat Linux 8.0 w/ nVidia binary drivers & stock XFree86
CL> >*) NetBSD 1.6-STABLE (-rnetbsd-1-6 branch as of last week) with
CL> > XFree86-current native 'nv' driver (-rHEAD branch as of last night)
CL> >
CL> >Anway, gonna go check on my card. I put it in the refrigerator (no frost).
CL> >
CL> >
CL> >
CL> This is great stuff and good to hear.
CL>
CL> Which of the NVidia cards is it you are running? Would you recommend one
CL> in particular?
...i'm using a "geforce 256", agp, 32mb, dvi+svideo+vga outputs
...i wouldn't recommend /ANYTHING/ until the open source native Xfree86
driver is as stable and useable as the binary driver AND/OR they release a
binary driver for /every single/ operating system that Xfree86 compiles on
that runs nvidia hardware, even if that means MINIX >:}
-lava (a bona fide NetBSD user pine'ing for opengl support on a real
operating system)
CL>
CL> ~Colin
CL>
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