FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Nov 4 07:58:36 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 10:44 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> Intel took over the maintenance of the ether pro 100 driver.  What
> happened?  Tranceiver lock-ups when the card got busy.  Adaptec took
> over maintenance of the AIC7xxx drivers for Linux.  What happened?
> CRASH.  And the proprietary NVidia drivers are widely known to crash
> systems... even with kernels that they used to develop and test the
> driver on. 

Makes you wonder if that's because they're used to systems where the
users are used to them crashing and not complaining about it, because
the users *mistakenly* think that's normal, and don't see any need to
produce better code.

e.g. Windows.

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