REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS

[Robert L Cochran]

I see that I got involved in programming religion again, always a big
mistake. The specific faith here is Church of Video Drivers. And it's my
own darn fault. 

Taking sides in the [name your programming religions here] factions is
asking for a bloodied nose.

Sorry!

Bob

  
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 22:41, Joe wrote:
> Robert L Cochran wrote:
> 
> >I long ago forgot the specifics of Nvidia's instructions for getting
> >their proprietary drivers to work. I can't remember if the drivers have
> >to be compiled right into bzImage, or if they can be treated as loadable
> >modules. I only did it the one time. When my first kernel update rolled
> >around and I couldn't get video output all of a sudden, I realized that
> >I had to recompile the kernel again to include the drivers.
> >
> Nah, that's FUD -
> 
>     nvidia-installer --update
> 
> does the trick, and in 30 seconds or so you're good, if you just answer 
> the questions.
> 
> 
> >
> >Now I'm a lot smarter. I stay with ATI. No special work needed, as
> >another man once remarked. And hey I love my Really Slick Screensavers!
> >
> It's great that we have the choice - I prefer nvidia cards at present,  
> as they are trying a lot harder to win our business. I really tried to 
> do it the gnu way, but nvidia just blows away the competition, and I 
> couldn't see hurting myself to keep away from nvidia drivers - whether 
> they are GPL'd or not, they are by far the best video drivers available 
> for linux.
> 
> If ATI cards work for you that's great - but my last experience was a 
> bit of a disaster, and I hear it's a minefield trying to get the 
> specific models that will actually support hardware accelerated 3D under 
> linux, and run without stability problems.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
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Bob Cochran
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