In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:06:25 +0000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc, > Hadron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didnst hastily scribble thusly: >> I'm not sure how long you have been posting here Troy, but the one thing >> that will become apparent is that COLA is like no where else on the >> net. And Mark Kent is one of the biggest idiots you are likely to come >> across. When NVidia finally solved the Linux problem > > What does "finally solved the linux problem" mean exactly? > Nvidia released their drivers for accellerated 3D over 7 years ago. > And unless you did a nymshift, you weren't even in COLA back then.
Nvidia has yet to release source for their newer drivers (the older card drivers have source, if one can use 'nv' within the X server, for RAGE-128-era hardware, which is by now extremely ancient AIUI). And they've yet to solve the problem 100%, at least on my hardware (which is a BT5500; I'm assuming this is similar to a GEForce FX 5500 in http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/132). Basically, if I ssh tunnel into my laptop and tell it to display on my Athlon, I occasionally get very funny looking artifacts in Eclipse's splash window; if I cancel Eclipse's request for a workspace and reinvoke, it seems to work around that issue. I also get a fair number of X lockups when doing so -- requiring an X restart. Were these drivers open source I could at least contemplate looking through them for obvious race conditions and other such flaws. Certainly I doubt this is Eclipse's fault. ;-) -- #191, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Been there, done that, didn't get the T-shirt. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
