3D Support for NVIDIA

Angel Apocalyptic angelsapocalypse at gmail.com
Mon Dec 17 17:25:03 UTC 2007


I also run nvidia's binary drivers for some days
under UBUNTU. I have not once had a kernel crash due to the nvidia
drivers.
cant understand,here,why all r thinking like this.

On 12/17/07, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
>
> Sam Varshavchik:
> <snip>
> : If you want hardware-accelerated 3D, yes. Or, you'll have to install
> : Nvidia's binary blobs. But if you do that, and if afterwards you have
> : problems with the kernel crashing, you'll have to remove Nvidia's non-free
> : drivers, and reproduce the problem without them, before anyone will help
> : you.
> <snip>
>
> Nonsense.
>
> I've run nothing but nvidia's binary drivers for the past 5 years
> under SuSE, Mandrake, and now Fedora and received all kinds of help.
>
> For the record, I have not once had a kernel crash due to the nvidia
> drivers.  I have, on the other hand, received some of the best help
> I've ever gotten from Mark Vojkovich who works (worked?)  at nvidia
> and (I believe) is one of the authors of the driver.  Due to the
> binary driver, I've been able to driver non-standard displays of all
> kinds which no OS driver had a prayer of driving.  Nothing to do with
> 3D either.
>
> Dean
>
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