The free driver for NVidia is Nouveau which has for a long time been lacking performance features. I think that things are improving in that regard.
The non-free NVidia drivers have a history of security issues and kernel crashes. On January 13, 2015 9:42:06 PM GMT+13:00, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi there, >I just recovered this message - got buried in my spam folder. >Can I infer from the Nvidia comments that there are many problems with >them ? Or are they just tricky but do work? If the latter then that >might be a topic that could help users. >Anyway I just wanted to acknowledge that I received your message >Russell >albeit a bit late... >Have fun in NZ, >Mike > > >On 20/12/14 20:25, Russell Coker wrote: >> Today at the beginners meeting I was asked about donations to the >Hardware >> Library. I think it's worth discussing the matter here. >> >> P4 systems and most parts from that era generally aren't useful, >systems based >> around the AMD64 architecture are just too common. AGP video cards >aren't >> useful because they only fit older systems and people who still have >such >> systems in use are usually using them as routers or something. PCI >Ethernet >> cards have some use, 2 port Ethernet cards are useful and 4 port >Ethernet >> cards are VERY useful. >> >> RAM from systems of most ages is often useful, and when it isn't >useful it's >> small and light enough that I'm happy to take donations and sort them >out >> later. >> >> SATA disks are always useful, even the small ones. Large IDE disks >are >> useful, for IDE 300G is large. >> >> All PCIe cards are useful except for NVidia video cards. As an aside >if >> anyone wants an NVidia PCIe card then I'll bring some along. I >usually don't >> carry them around due to driver issues. >> >> I will bring the Hardware Library to the BBQ. I know that you are >the type of >> people who want that. ;) >> > >_______________________________________________ >luv-main mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main -- Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with K-9 Mail. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
