On Thursday 04 September 2003 09:39 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 00:58:20 +0100 > > "Rick [Kitty5]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why should nvidia support projects to duplicate their drivers? > > They provide an excellent & regularly updated driver that's > > written & maintained by people that know the hardware inside out. > > But not necessarily all the related hardware. I'm using the nvidia > drivers, but they crap out big time if I enable AGP, so I have to > run with AGP disabled.
In My experience the AGP problem has a lot to do with your chipset. I couldn't run AGP on either of my VIA based boards. Switching over to an Nforce2 based board made the GeForce4 TI4200 ROCK! Glxgears runs at >6000 frames/second. Are you running a VIA chipset? > > > Making the kernel as binary driver friendly as windows would be a > > great place to start ... > > Yep. It would be great if the kernel had a standard API for driver > modules that did not fall over each time the kernel developers get > a wild hair. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
