[ale] nvidia news

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 03/27/2010 09:05 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 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?

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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Michael B. Trausch                                    ☎ (404) 492-6475