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Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe.alfaro at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 19:57:10 UTC 2005


On 6/6/05, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > well the moment you use the (probably illegal) nvidia binary drivers you
> > > gave up all advantages of open source already. Especially on the
> > > security front, binary drivers have a really bad reputation and history
> > > there.
> >
> > People love Fedora, and people love Nvidia drivers. Both for good reasons.
> > You'll have to accept that eventually, instead of systematically bad-mouthing
> > every person that brings up Nvidia issues on this mailing list.
> 
> He's not bad-mouthing the person. He's bad-mouthing the driver.
> 
> And he's hardly doing it systematically.
> 
> seriously - nvidia drivers being bad for your system is not new. You
> should have seen this before.

Don't see why they can be bad for my system: I've never had problems
with them (even when CONFIG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_4K_STACKS), have been
using them for more than 3 months with all unstable/testing kernel
releases up to 2.6.12-rc6 and performance is exceptional with them
loaded.




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