On Thursday December 11 at 06:35pm Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > > I originaly thought about bying radeon (9500, or 9700) but when I've > > searched the mailing list I saw there were a lot of problems with > > the ATI drivers too, so I've decided to stick with nvidia (known > > evil against new evil...) > > Well, known evil is easy to fix and does. ATI drivers are pretty > solid. nvidia drivers are closed and buggy, so while it's known evil, > it's not something we can do anything about but boycott. Although I have not had a chance to deal with the ATI drivers, Nvidia's have been rock-solid for me, and provide excellent performance. I have never had a serious problem with the stock installer, and my display is just beautiful. Just because its 'binary only' (which it is not)[1] does not mean that it isn't an excellent driver. [1] see attachment for a list of files included in the installer, after running 'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --extract-only,' as listed by 'find . > ~/nvidia' Yes, there are a lot of precompiled modules, but should there not be one for your kernel, the installer will compile one for you I'm sorry, I retract that. It seems there is a precompiled nv-kernel.o which is used to build the kernel module. But at least it performs better than ATI's. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Black Flag - Six Pack : Damaged Today is Setting Orange, the 53rd day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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