Opinion: NVIDIA drivers are a Good Thing [tm]

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon May 17 23:33:26 UTC 2004


On Monday 17 May 2004 17:48, 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.
>
>> >I don't consider it idiocy. You DO CLAIM to use the driver for
>> > the 3D support, right? That's what the allegory of "bright
>> > colours" refers to.
>>
>> 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 on the screen which made the display practically unusable. I
>> got their driver and was able to move immediately to the
>> 1600x1200 at 75Hz resolution I wanted. I could care less about 3D.
>
>? At least the GeForce 2MX gave me 1152x... on my SAMTRON 70E at
> 80Hz...

Kinda low def there. :-) I too have a gforce2 mx200, 32 megs ram.  
Currently (for the last 4 years or so) running 1600x1200x32 on a 
downright elderly NEC 5FG.  nv driver.

>
>WITH nv...
>
>Rui

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