On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Michael Holt wrote: > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Tom Brinkman uttered these words of wisdom: > > Why all the bad words about nvidia?
Probably because some of us who run cooker on NVidia boxen who need working OpenGL are tired of recompiling kernel modules every time we upgrade our kernel. And it's not just NVidia, it's also now Ati, and also the winmodem drivers. > I'm using their drivers for my > GeForce3 card and it works great - no problem at all setting it up or > using it. I love my q3a and rtcw (3d games) - which both work without a > hitch. Is there something better out there? Let me know, eh? Agreed, but see how fun it is to keep up with the cooker kernel for 6 months and let me know ... I still need to get ariound to writing a script I can run from cron for rebuilding all the kernel modules I need (NVidia, Lucent Winmodem) every time kernel-source has been updated ... Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
