FC3:NVIDIA Problems, Again

[David Cary Hart]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 10:29 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 19:43, alan wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > 
> > > New Release from NVIDIA yet it won't work with FC3/2.6.9-1.667-custom.
>                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Maybe your custom build has something incompatible.

No but the problem is solved with a modprobe in rc.local; Something that
was previously unnecessary.
> 
> > > Strangely no problems with Korg 2.6.9. Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > I have one: NEVER buy another machine with an NVIDIA card.
> > 
> 
> My nvidia works flawlessly, with stock kernels on the distro.
> 
> > At least nVIDIA supports all of their currently shipping cards with their 
> > drivers.  ATI only supports the "top of the line" cards.  
> > 
> > Yes they are closed source.  Better closed source drivers than none at 
> > all.
> > 
> > And it worked fine on my system.  Then again, I am using the x86_64 
> > build...
> > 
> > -- 
> > Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas?
> > A: Because OCT 31 == DEC 25.
>