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[Richard Faulkner]

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:
> 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
>