On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 20:00, Chris Alvarez wrote: > Well, I've had no problem with the nVidia driver I use. OK, I have had > problems with the newest driver for my card (at work my comp has a > double monitor nVidia card, I don't remember the model), it's number > 6000 and something, and the newest one doesn't work well with SuSE 9.1 > Pro. But the previous one (number 5336) works fine
There's also been this issue with the 4k stacks too, which precludes me from being able to use the earlier versions. From forums on nvidia's site, I'd say that the majority of users seem to be using the drivers with few problems, but a large minority have nothing but trouble (about 1/3 of the posters). I'm always one of those in the last category. The only consolation I can take is that the Windows drivers are of equally poor quality. Anytime you are willing to contaminate your kernel with a binary-only driver that's several megabytes in size, you should expect some stability problems. And the kernel developers are very right to refuse to take any bug reports from a user who has such a driver loaded into his kernel. Hopefully as the software industry moves more and more towards using FOSS system software components to build their products on (read the talk by Andrew Morton from the Linux Symposium -- it's good), hopefully hardware venders will be pressured to provide FOSS components. It really is in the economic interests of everyone to do this, although from time to time companies get hung up on their desire to dominate in a way that ultimately hurts everyone. end of rant. Michael > > Chris Alvarez > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ext. 1-3837 > IS&T Web Applications Services > Novell, Inc., the leading provider of information solutions > http://www.novell.com > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/03/04 7:11 PM >>> > On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 18:35, Andrew McNabb wrote: > > > I've been really happy with nVidia. Their driver is really nice, as > > long as you aren't bothered by the fact that it's binary only. > > Please tell me I'm not the only one who has nothing but trouble with > NVidia's binary drivers. Garbled text console, locked up X server > (happens on all machines I've ever used, even at work), and complete > system hangs. Sure it's fun to run with 3d support, but it definitely > makes my system unstable. > > Michael -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
