Opinion: NVIDIA drivers are a Good Thing [tm]

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Mon May 17 23:02:27 UTC 2004


At 15:48 5/17/2004, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 15:03 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> > >Then it gives you no warranties, offers no responsability or liability
> > >for problems (imagine if in certain conditions you got a total
> > >filesystem corruption and lost something important...).
> >
> > Please, show me any application that *does* take responsibility or
> > liability for any of those things!
>
>No one does it on proprietary software, normally. And it is one possible
>source of revenue with Free Software.

Still, you're complaining that NVIDIA does not do a thing which no one else 
does either. I fail to see the relevance of that.

> > No, I don't. I said I got their driver after the nv module X gave me was
> > unable to go beyond 800x600 at 60Hz resolution without massive noise
>
>? At least the GeForce 2MX gave me 1152x... on my SAMTRON 70E at 80Hz...
>
>WITH nv...

Gee, lucky you.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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