Nvidia sucks, sucks, sucks !

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Nov 10 00:11:18 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 11:55 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 13:40 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > > Yesterday I absentmindedly ran "yum update".  Stupid me, I didn't
> > watch
> > > it and apparently a new kernel got installed (2835).
snip

> I also googled around to see if other people were building drivers for
> 2835 and if so, what success they were having.  Can you imagine if we
> had to do this for every piece of hardware on our PCs ?
> 
> > > BTW: google doesn't work with lynx, nor does surfing some helpful
> > > websites.
> > And why is this NIVIDIA's fault?
> 
> Because with ANY other driver, I wouldn't have been working from a
> command line !  My server has an ATI card in it.   I've never spent one
> second of time thinking about it.   It has never forced me to work from
> the command line !  
> 
And am I to assume that your server is also updated from the testing
repo?
Remind me to avoid doing any form of business with your organization if
that is the case.

> -- 
> Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.
> 
> 




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