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

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

Quoth Takeshi Hakamata (Thu 2002-08-22 04:47:30PM -0600):
> At Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:11:22 +0200,
> Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> > 
> > Josh Glover wrote:
> > 
> > > The nVidia drivers for Linux are shit. [...]
> > 
> > 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.

I know of the workaround, and applied it to my kernel options as soon
as it hit the kernel mailing list. That made matters better, but the
machine still locked a lot, only in X, only when I was using the
nVidia drivers. When I switched to the unaccelerated XFree86 driver,
things cleared up.

Call it a coincidence if you like, but I call it shit, and since I do
not game on my boxen, I will buy a Matrox next time. I don't need no
steenkin' 3D! ;)


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Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>

Associate Systems Administrator
INCOGEN, Inc.

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