Nvidia sucks, sucks, sucks !

[Alastair Neil]

On 11/9/06, ethericalzen at gmail.com <ethericalzen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:36:02 -0700
> Kim Lux <lux at diesel-research.com> took out a #2 pencil and
> scribbled:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 13:24 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > > I'd like to thank Nvidia for wasting another hour of my life
> > > this
> > > > morning !  I am pretty sure that if it wasn't for Nvidia and
> > > > their stupid, idiotic driver system that I could have saved
> > > > enough time in the last 2 years to go on a week's vacation !
> > >
> > > Yeah, those bastards.  Giving you a driver for $0 and forcing
> > > you to use it.  Round up a posse to tar and feather them.
> >
> > Can you imagine if we had to build drivers in this manner for
> > EVERY piece of hardware on our computers ?  Should we be
> > applauding Nvidia for their approach to Linux OS support ?  I
> > think not !
> >
> > I'd love to know how an admin with 200 PCs with nvidia cards would
> > handle this.
> >
>
> It would be very dependent upon what these PC's were doing. Yum
> running nightly with a proper config would work just fine. The
> binary nvidia driver is for hardware acceleration. If you do not
> install the binary nvidia driver as other have pointed out and you
> seem to be missing the point on, the nv driver is used by default.
> I have an nvidia card 5600 in one box 5700 in another and Fedora as
> well as CentOS detected the card and used 'nv' for the driver.
>
> I installed the binary nvidia driver by hand on one box just to see
> the 3d effects, but then removed it and went back to nv. There is
> absolutely no reason for an average user to install nvidia binary
> drivers unless they need hardware acceleration and honestly, if the
> average user can not be bothered to learn how to configure their
> machine to taste (windows defaults to a set of norms and linux is
> no different, if you want to go outside of those norms then you are
> not an average user) the brokeness is well deserved.[1]
>
> Nvidia as well as ATI are profit based closed source companies.
> They don't necessarily develop all of the software that goes into
> driving their hardware and may be under NDA, so opening their
> driver source may not be legally possible for them. We all respect
> the law do we not?
>
> [1] This is my personal opinion, but I am also a consultant and am
> paid to fix silly things that users do not wish to learn on their
> own. That is the cost of not learning how to use your computer and
> the accompanying software.


The nv driver does not support dual head configurations on my card so its a
non starter for me.
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