Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that
> occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X
> wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe 'nvidia'
> manually, and then it loads, but with an error:
>
> I've googled for it but only found some kernel mailing list entries which I
> didn't understand. as a workaround I've added nvidia to '/etc/modules' but
> I was wondering if this problem can be solved.
nVidia has actively demonstrated they don't care.
Go return that video card and exchange it for an ATI Radeon, for which
there are better drivers, as well as open source drivers for the
Radeon that Just Work, and work way better than nVidia's proprietary
hack.
- --
.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :' :
`. `'` proud Debian admin and user
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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