Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)
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From: "Paul Johnson" <baloo@ursine.ca>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 19:49
Subject: Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)
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> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:04:20AM -0800, donw@examen.com wrote:
> > I've had the same thing; the drivers that I nabbed from nVidia have been
> > rock-solid and quite functional, whereas the Debian packages...besides,
> > why is it a 'crap driver'?
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> The debian packages and what you get off nvidia's site are the same.
>
> Showstopper bugs:
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> 1) License
> 2) Will occasionally lock up the system without putting anything in
> the log (though this is getting less frequent over time.
> 3) Drivers don't perform as well as the Windows version
>
> Item 3 is really damning, nVidia cards are the only video cards I've
> seen that consistently perform craptastically under Linux.
>
> Fuck nVidia, nVidia sucks. They should just call it quits now while
> they still have fans.
>
> - --
> .''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
> : :' :
Perhaps its because of inexperience but I have no trouble with nVidia. It
works very well.
Hoyt
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