Re: [tlug] Re: recommendations for a good pc shop in tokyo

[Takeshi Hakamata <tkh@example.com>]

At Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:11:22 +0200,
Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> 
> Josh Glover wrote:
> 
> > The nVidia drivers for Linux are shit. They were causing my Athlon box
> > to segfault and lock up pretty often (like twice a week, which may be
> > nothing for Windows users, but I *demand* uptime in the thousands of
> > days! ;), and nVidia with not release the source, or the tech specs
> > for the damned card that would allow other people to write phat 3D
> > drivers for it.
> 
> IMHO the nvidia drivers are quite good. I had some problems in the past,
> but the version I'm currently running (2960) seems stable.
> (My current uptime is 15 days, mostly because I have not changed my
> kernel or used the pwc (Phillips webcam) driver lately)
> Before my Geforce 4 MX I had a ATI Rage 128 Pro, but the ati drivers
> have problems with OpenGL support and Unreal Tournament was unplayable...

I have been using nvidia's GeForce3 with my dual AthlonMP box and
it's quite stable. There is an issue when you use nvidia's driver
on an Athlon box, but you can workaround that by specifying
'mem=nopentium' option to the kernel when you boot it.
If you use 2.4.19 kernel, the temporary workaround is built in, so
you don't need to use this option.


Takeshi