Kevin Kofler wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
Nvidia has caused some problems but in all the years has worked close to
90% of the time. Freshrpms support is great. I just wish akmod would
work as advertised on my systems.
FYI, FreshRPMs merged into RPM Fusion, there are no graphics drivers in
2009/3/10 Bill Crawford billcrawford1...@gmail.com:
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 16:13:16 Ed Greshko wrote:
If everybody listened to somebody that told them not to buy something
then nobody would buying anything.
But, the same applies in reverse, and the warnings - which might apply to some
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Michael Cronenworth wrote:
The 9560m GT is not a problem.
It is. The proprietary driver is known to cause many problems (crashes,
serious performance and rendering issues etc.) which we cannot fix because
only NVidia has access to the source code.
If it is
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Ed Greshko wrote:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Michael Cronenworth wrote:
The 9560m GT is not a problem.
It is. The proprietary driver is known to cause many problems
(crashes, serious performance and rendering issues etc.) which we
cannot fix because only NVidia has
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
anyone have good/bad/indifferent experience with one of these
running fedora?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220412
No experience, but this thing has an NVidia graphics card. Those are
the
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
philosophically, i don't like closed-source drivers any more than
the next geek, but sometimes you simply can't avoid getting an nvidia
card in some models of laptop.
Then you buy another model.
Kevin Kofler
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Robert P. J. Day:
philosophically, i don't like closed-source drivers any more than
the next geek, but sometimes you simply can't avoid getting an nvidia
card in some models of laptop.
Kevin Kofler:
Then you buy another model.
Not always an option. When I bought my laptop, the only local
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i have to side with ed on this one -- while we may not like closed
source technology, nvidia has generally worked well for me when i've
had to deal with it.
Then why do we routinely get bug reports like (most recent one):
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
philosophically, i don't like closed-source drivers any more than
the next geek, but sometimes you simply can't avoid getting an nvidia
card in some models of laptop.
Then you buy another model.
i'm curious, kevin ...
Tim wrote:
Not always an option. When I bought my laptop, the only local choices
(amongst several computer shops), were NVidia (with supported and
unlisted chipsets), ATI (with chipsets known to be problems at the time,
or no details), and Intel (with supported chipsets on appallingly low
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
philosophically, i don't like closed-source drivers any more than
the next geek, but sometimes you simply can't avoid getting an nvidia
card in some models of laptop.
Then you buy another model.
I wrote:
I'd rather buy an appallingly low spec laptop than something requiring
proprietary drivers. And changes are the unsupported chipsets from Intel
Sorry, s/changes/chances/.
would actually have worked just fine with current Fedora, the
documentation you based your decision on was just
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i have to side with ed on this one -- while we may not like closed
source technology, nvidia has generally worked well for me when
i've had to deal with it.
Then why do we routinely get bug reports like (most recent one):
Tim wrote:
Not always an option. When I bought my laptop, the only local choices
(amongst several computer shops), were NVidia (with supported and
unlisted chipsets), ATI (with chipsets known to be problems at the time,
or no details), and Intel (with supported chipsets on appallingly low
Steve Searle wrote:
Around 09:58am on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 (UK time), Ed Greshko scrawled:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i have to side with ed on this one -- while we may not like closed
source technology, nvidia has generally worked well for me when
i've
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 09 March 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
anyone have good/bad/indifferent experience with one of these
running fedora?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220412
Robert, I have an ASUS mobo in this machine, but had I known the problems I
On Tuesday 10 March 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i have to side with ed on this one -- while we may not like closed
source technology, nvidia has generally worked well for me when i've
had to deal with it.
Then why do we routinely get bug reports like (most recent one):
On Tuesday 10 March 2009, Robin Laing wrote:
[...]
In regards to the ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe. I am using one now and it works
like a dream. All I had to do was update the BIOS to fix an issue with
the amount of RAM I was using. It wouldn't recognize anything over 4Gig
when I got it.
Which bios
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 10 March 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i have to side with ed on this one -- while we may not like closed
source technology, nvidia has generally worked well for me when i've
had to deal with it.
Then why do we routinely
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 16:13:16 Ed Greshko wrote:
If everybody listened to somebody that told them not to buy something
then nobody would buying anything.
But, the same applies in reverse, and the warnings - which might apply to some
particular hardware, or software versions, more than
Bill Crawford wrote:
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 16:13:16 Ed Greshko wrote:
If everybody listened to somebody that told them not to buy something
then nobody would buying anything.
But, the same applies in reverse, and the warnings - which might apply to
some
particular hardware,
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 00:13 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
If everybody listened to somebody that told them not to buy something
then nobody would buying anything.
And Windows wouldn't be as prevalent... Damn!
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Tim wrote:
Yeah, right... (with heavy sarcasm). Buy a laptop that you know has an
unsupported chipset in the hope that it may be useable two or three
years in the future. Don't be completely stupid.
What chipset was that and when?
Chances are it was actually *already* working in the current
Robin Laing wrote:
Nvidia has caused some problems but in all the years has worked close to
90% of the time. Freshrpms support is great. I just wish akmod would
work as advertised on my systems.
FYI, FreshRPMs merged into RPM Fusion, there are no graphics drivers in
FreshRPMs anymore.
anyone have good/bad/indifferent experience with one of these
running fedora?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220412
rday
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Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:
anyone have good/bad/indifferent experience with one of these
running fedora?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220412
rday
I'm 90% sure it would work fine but newegg is a little light on
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
anyone have good/bad/indifferent experience with one of these
running fedora?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220412
No experience, but this thing has an NVidia graphics card. Those are the
source of worlds of pain. I strongly recommend going
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
anyone have good/bad/indifferent experience with one of these
running fedora
I'm using an N80Vn-X5 on Fedora 10 which is pretty similar to what you
are looking at. The only thing I had to do special was tell ALSA to use
a particular model of m51va for sound to work.
On Monday 09 March 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
anyone have good/bad/indifferent experience with one of these
running fedora?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220412
Robert, I have an ASUS mobo in this machine, but had I known the problems I
would encounter with its
Michael Cronenworth wrote:
The 9560m GT is not a problem.
It is. The proprietary driver is known to cause many problems (crashes,
serious performance and rendering issues etc.) which we cannot fix because
only NVidia has access to the source code.
Kevin Kofler
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