nVidia support and due diligence failure

2012-11-14 Thread Ed Greshko
I had to replace my video card as it was causing system crashes and finally died. My old card had a GT 230 chip. I check and brought http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeName with me shopping. I noted that my card was in the NV50 family. This seems to have good support and I had not prob

Re: nVidia support and due diligence failure

2012-11-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/15/2012 03:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > I had to replace my video card as it was causing system crashes and finally > died. My old card had a GT 230 chip. I check and brought > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeName with me shopping. I noted that > my card was in the NV50 family. T

Re: nVidia support and due diligence failure

2012-11-15 Thread Doug
On 11/15/2012 10:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 11/15/2012 03:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I had to replace my video card as it was causing system crashes and finally died. My old card had a GT 230 chip. I check and brought http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeName with me shopping. I noted tha

Re: nVidia support and due diligence failure

2012-11-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/16/2012 11:50 AM, Doug wrote: > On 11/15/2012 10:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 11/15/2012 03:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> I had to replace my video card as it was causing system crashes and finally >>> died. My old card had a GT 230 chip. I check and brought >>> http://nouveau.freedeskto

Re: nVidia support and due diligence failure

2012-11-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/16/2012 12:17 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Where do you get the impression that I've bad mouthed nVidia? I even told > you that I installed kmod-nvidia which *IS* the binary from nVidia packaged > for easy installation on Linux. Should have said "for easy installation on Fedora" since rpm