[ale] nvidia news

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 03/27/2010 10:13 AM, William Fragakis wrote:
> The proprietary nvidia drivers have been a thorn in my side, too. From
> what I can gather, it installs its own versions of opengl libraries
> which then wrecks the intel video ability to do on my thin clients (ie
> compiz). Trying to run either the nv or nouveau drivers means the thin
> clients now work splendidly but the server has a useless desktop. As
> it's attached to a nice 22" lcd, that's a total waste.
>
> Time to chuck these cards on ebay and get some ATIs.

Let us know what chipsets you get and how well things work on whatever 
distro/version/driver combination, if you could please.  That would be 
awesome.

I know that I had to use the proprietary driver on my laptop while I was 
running Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10), but on Lucid (Ubuntu 10.04-to-be) it works 
excellently with free software.  It is kind of nice to be running 
software that I can at least debug if the need arises.  That's been my 
only problem with NVIDIA.  And it wasn't that bad back when they were 
responsive to bug reports.  However, it seems that these days, you send 
them a bug report with their proprietary driver and it winds up going 
into a black hole somewhere, never to be answered.

	--- Mike

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Michael B. Trausch                                    ☎ (404) 492-6475