Re: video card reccomendation
* Andrew Reid <reidac@bellatlantic.net> schrieb:
> However, my experience with their binary drivers has been quite
> good. They're reasonably easy to install, and seem to perform
> quite well for me. In particular, they have one of the best
> distribution-agnostic binary-blob installers I've ever run across.
Actually, I've *never* got their 3D kernel blob working on any
box, no matter what kernel version if was using. Always produced
hard-lockups as soon the driver god accessed (in some versions
already when loading it). I've analyzed the machine code a bit,
and that showed up horrible things like self-modifying code and
certain anti-debugging measures.
That's why I'd _never_ approve it to any production systems,
even if it seems to work. I simply _cannot_ trust it.
cu
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