On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:33 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> Miark wrote:
> > On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:57:25 +0100
> >
> > Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>I'm not a gamer, but I specifically bought a nvidia card because I read
> >>it was well supported under Linux.
> >>
> >>Now I don't really think so, won't get burnt by nvidia again.
> >
> > nVidia _is_ well supported. Have you ever looked at nVidia's page of
>
> no, it isn't. Bug reports are ignored and each release is worse than the
> previous one (for me at least it is). I've gone from spontaneous X
> restarting while using xv in one release to an occasional crash in the
> next to filesystem corruption in the next.
I agree here. I have contacts within nvidia already and thier driver support
for linux is way off. It's more like an after thought. Mind you I don't even
sell thier cards in my shop anymore the failure ratio is way to high.
>
> > drivers? nVidia isn't obligated to do anything for the Linux community,
> > but they have released many versions of their drivers. And instead of
> > just posting a tarball, they've made release-specific RPMs for dozens of
> > set-ups, including all the stock kernels of Mandrake's last four
> > releases.
> >
> > I'm not in the habit of defending nVidia--believe me--but you ought to be
> > a little more thankful for what you've got and quit talking nonsense.
>
> Well, from now on I will be very thankful for being ignored, random
> crashes and filesystem corruption.
>
> > What do you think you'll switch to?
>
> I don't have the sligthest idea, but I know it won't be nvidia.
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