Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread N Smethurst
Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 01:26, jokerman64 a écrit : Something to fix or to add to the errata? Well, nothing positive unfortunately except use the Nvidia drivers. The XFree geforce 3 4 ones shouldn't really be shipped IMO. It's just going to look bad for Mandrake when loads of keen

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 N Smethurst wrote: Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 01:26, jokerman64 a écrit : If these useless drivers were not included, the user would have to use VESA. That is the whole point of not including them until they work. After that, it would be up to the

RE: Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread falcaraz
] Fecha: Miércoles, Marzo 5, 2003 11:27 am Asunto: Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems) Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 01:26, jokerman64 a écrit : Something to fix or to add to the errata? Well, nothing positive unfortunately except use the Nvidia drivers. The XFree

RE: Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread falcaraz
Murcia - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Miércoles, Marzo 5, 2003 11:54 am Asunto: Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 N Smethurst wrote: Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 01:26, jokerman64

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread N Smethurst
I guess I should have worded that more clearly. I should have said that the options for geforce 4 (and perhaps geforce 3, although the sucess rate seems to be a little higher with geforce 3 cards) should only include the vesa driver, and perhaps a note discussing installing the nvidia drivers

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:27, N Smethurst wrote: Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 01:26, jokerman64 a écrit : Something to fix or to add to the errata? And I suppose it's better for the newbies to look at a blank console and figure out what the hell they're going to do next. I'll doubt

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Trevor Rhodes
If these useless drivers were not included, the user would have to use VESA. That is the whole point of not including them until they work. After that, it would be up to the user whether to install the nvidia binary drivers or not. moment please. Does this problem also exist on geforce2

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Luca Olivetti
N Smethurst wrote: too. However, I guess this would be politically incorrect so it will never happen, despite the fact that the users want drivers that work. So you should look elsewhere but nvidia (In fact I'm so pissed off at the constant crashes with nvidia binary driver that I'll stay far

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 06:30, Luca Olivetti wrote: N Smethurst wrote: too. However, I guess this would be politically incorrect so it will never happen, despite the fact that the users want drivers that work. So you should look elsewhere but nvidia (In fact I'm so pissed off at the

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread jokerman64
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:17 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 06:30, Luca Olivetti wrote: N Smethurst wrote: too. However, I guess this would be politically incorrect so it will never happen, despite the fact that the users want drivers that work. So you should look

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread jokerman64
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 9:30 am, Luca Olivetti wrote: N Smethurst wrote: too. However, I guess this would be politically incorrect so it will never happen, despite the fact that the users want drivers that work. So you should look elsewhere but nvidia (In fact I'm so pissed off at the

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:24, jokerman64 wrote: ... Voodoo3s play all GL and SDL games very nicely, Quake and all its variants are fine, Descent3 is great. However, some game authors will write their games specifically for a certain video card. They might say that it's to utilize many

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Luca Olivetti
jokerman64 wrote: If it's always crashing for you you possibly did something wrong when installing. in this case it would be nvidia fault too (I always use the srpms). And, no, it isn't always crashing, it just crashes from time to time (but it's enough to piss me off, since this machine is