On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 15:56 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 14:55, Scott R. Godin wrote:
He says that when using the driver from livna the problems noted are fixed so most won't have a problem. I personally never saw the problems he notes even when I used the driver directly from nvidia.
https://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1069
status: RESOLVED resolution: WONTFIX
Why? proprietary. passing up the pipeline? too much work.
Thorsten's follow up commentary was additionally enlightening.
I'm curious. Just what is it, on a box that must be 100% stable, that needs the proprietary driver?
Nothing. I can live fine without it, I just wanted 2d redraw accelerated, along with the openGL screensavers. I don't use the machine for games unless I've booted to windows first, (and that only rarely, as it's nothing to write home about cpu/vid wise), or for 3d-modeling.
It's got an nvidia chipset on the motherboard, so seeing that kmod_nvidia was available, built for my FC release, and my kernel, I went for it.
I didn't find out (or realize) until much much later just how unstable it really is.