Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 01 January 2009 11:02:23 Dale wrote: > >> I just did a reinstall on my rig and it did the exact same thing. I had >> to mask the one it installed and re-emerge the older one that does >> work. Isn't there some way for it to pick the right one? After all, it >> new it was the WRONG one it was installing. Looks to me like it could >> pick the right one. >> > > The software does not have the slightest vaguest foggiest concept of what the > RIGHT and the WRONG drivers are. That's a human being's conclusion. > > It therefore cannot decide. > The devs therefore correctly decided to not even try and decide. > > Unix-like systems demand that the user actually has a clue, is more than a > mere automatonic moron, can and does read information and can and does really > make decisions. And is prepared to live with the results. > > Some Unix people try to get all politically correct and hide this fundamental > fact, but that is just plain wrong. It will never work any other way than how > it is working right now. > > Users that are not prepared to actually think about what they are doing > should > switch back to Windows. That system specializes in treating their customers > like complete idiots. > >
Not disputing what you say but if it doesn't know what card we are using, why does it warn us that it is not compatible? Exact same thing happened to me a couple weeks ago and it has not happened before that, that I can recall anyway. Dale :-) :-)
