NVIDIA driver *taints* kernel???

[Guy Fraser]

On Thu, 2005-20-01 at 13:58 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Guy Fraser wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-19-01 at 13:54 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > 
> >>Matthew Miller wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:38:19PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>Advice: only use graphics cards that provide and support open source 
> >>>>>>drivers.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I can't think of any, please provide some links so I can buy one.
> >>>>
> >>>>Uhm, ATI Radeons?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Old ones, yeah.
> >>
> >>My 9700SE is handled fine by FC3.  It's not that old (<6 months).
> > 
> > Does it have HW 3D and multiple display support?
> 
> I don't recall offhand and the machine is at home and not really
> available here from the office.
> 
According to some people on this list, some cards are fully supported 
with the standard drivers.

I bought an ATI AIW Radeon 8500 DV about 6 months after it came out.
After discoveing that it didn't work I contacted ATI and they told 
me they had no intention of directly supporting Linux. I suggested 
they think it over, then I started looking for alternate ways of 
getting it going. I had some success for a while but ended up 
putting my ATI AIW Rage 128 back into the machine, and put the 
Radeon in a windows machine. It seems to me it was a couple of 
years before a decent driver was supported. I still don't trust 
ATI's intentions after there comments from a couple years ago.