[jumping OT]RE: [ale] NVIDIA cards and drivers

Kilroy, Chris Chris.Kilroy at turner.com
Wed May 28 10:47:27 EDT 2003





speaking of good deals on NVIDIA products:


http://tinyurl.com/cuxi


bid now before it is too late!!


->-----Original Message-----
->From: Sean Kilpatrick [mailto:kilpatms at mindspring.com]
->Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:41 AM
->To: ale at ale.org
->Subject: Re: [ale] NVIDIA cards and drivers
->
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->On Tuesday 27 May 2003 11:19 pm, Marvin Dickens wrote:
->> I
->> Hap-hazardly edited the file /etc/X11/x86config and removed 
->the line: 
->> 
->> Driver "nv"
->> 
->> and replaced it with:
->> 
->> Driver "nvidia"  
->> 
->> I made sure the line
->> 
->>         Load   "glx"
->> 
->> was present and then removed the line:
->> 
->> Load  "dri"
->> 
->
->Yes, but . . . .
->
->As one who uses the computer as a tool to get certain
->jobs done, I have no interest in this level of tinkering.
->
->Imagine for the moment that every time you needed to refill
->the windshield washer bottle in your car, you had to disassemble
->the entire mechanism and recalibrate the pump pressure.
->
->Desktop users shouldn't have to go through this kind of
->tear-down and rebuild every time the Red Hat "up2date"
->program drops a new kernel in the hopper.
->
->Sean,
->
->who has been mightily tempted by this thread to give up on
->his nvidia card and replace it with an ATI.
->
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