Hi,
I've made the big mistake of bying an notebook w/ geforce go 6100. The proprietary drivers *never* worked for me - the binary kernel modules crashed the whole kernel (complete lockup) after a several seconds (doesnt even need X to come up for that). I've analyzed their module a bit and seen really bad things. Looks it's a hand-written bunch of assembler code with massive code obfuscation, just like Skype ;-o IMHO, if someone spends so much work into machine code obfuscation, he *really* has something to hide. Not just some "intellectual property" (which is outdated alfter a few months). Of course, opensource 3D support is (almost) not existing, (2D works very fine), and NVidia repeatedly states that they will NOT do the slightest attempt to improve the situation. So I strongly suggest, NOT to buy NV cards. (BTW: a few month ago, I managed to stop a customer from buying several hundreds of NV cards - yes, consulting jobs sometimes make really fun this way ;-P) cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
