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This is very interesting. I will have to see what I can learn. My
issue is that I am starting to research the use of CUDA/GPU offloading
with blender. And since Nvidia seems to have the best workstation
video cards hands down, like the quadro fx , quadro plex, and tesla
series cards, I am kinda stuck when it comes to GPU integration into
the rendering pipeline. So hopefully as long as I am only using the
proprietary drivers and not trying to use anything that creates
conflicts, I should be ok. Cross my fingers anyway. And it is kind of
funny that they would stop open source support since the whole CUDA
open source side of their cards relies on the community of users to
create implementations for CUDA to be successful. Oh well, guess that
all coins have two sides.<br>
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Thanks for the update. Even though Nvidia is not being very friendly,
for the kind of work I want to do they are the best option that I know
of.<br>
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Joshua<br>
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Richard Faulkner wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm a *YES* vote for reading on your kernel mode experiences. I'm
trying to learn all that I can to tell you the truth.
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 12:14 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 03/27/2010 09:05 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I ran SUSE 9.x, 10.0, 10.1 on my Dell desktop. Then, one day, it crashed,
wouldn't boot ( yes, I have an NVIDIA card, no , it wasn't a video problem).
None of my SUSE Cds would work, all crashed& burned. Pulled out a Debian CD
I had, it installed just fine. Installed KDE, because my wife was used to it,
and I kept that. I run gnome, my wife uses KDE, and I install the NVIDIA
drivers using sgfxi -c . I've tried other methods, but nothing seems to work
as well as the sgfxi -c. The NVIDIA non-free driver has been a thorn in my
side since my first Dell desktop running SUSE. Debian hasn't been any better.
Does HP use ATI cards? maybe it is time for a change of hardware?
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<pre wrap="">It seems the vendors offer a choice of what hardware is in what systems,
more or less. You can choose HP systems that have Intel, NVIDIA or ATI
the last time I checked. My current laptop (one of the HP dv7 series)
has an ATI chipset in it.
Erica has a Dell that has an Intel graphics chipset in it. It works,
though it's not as speedy as an ATI or NVIDIA chipset is, of course. My
laptop has ATI, and my desktop has NVIDIA. The on-board chipset on the
motherboard was an NVIDIA as well, but I had so many issues with it
(between hard lock-ups and display corruption, including under Windows,
which I installed just to test it out) that I got a PCI-E NVIDIA card.
It's better in that it doesn't do all the funky things that the old one
did, but it has been a bit troublesome to get working in a stable
manner, nonetheless. If I replace the graphics card again, I'm quite
likely to get an ATI card.
It seems that since they released the specs for their hardware, the
programmers have come through with good, high-speed drivers that support
kernel mode setting, and I'm telling you, I *love* kernel mode setting.
I can't express in words just how much I love kernel mode setting! If
anyone is interested, I'll post my experience with an add-in ATI card
when I get around to doing it, though that probably won't be for a
couple of months yet.
--- Mike
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