3D Support for NVIDIA

[Angel Apocalyptic]

If there has not any problem in Ubuntu,using NVIDIA binary
drivers,then what´s the problem in Fedora?Strange!

On 12/17/07, Angel Apocalyptic <angelsapocalypse at gmail.com> wrote:
> I also run nvidia's binary drivers for some days
> under UBUNTU. I have not once had a kernel crash due to the nvidia
> drivers.
> cant understand,here,why all r thinking like this.
>
> On 12/17/07, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
> >
> > Sam Varshavchik:
> > <snip>
> > : If you want hardware-accelerated 3D, yes. Or, you'll have to install
> > : Nvidia's binary blobs. But if you do that, and if afterwards you have
> > : problems with the kernel crashing, you'll have to remove Nvidia's
> non-free
> > : drivers, and reproduce the problem without them, before anyone will help
> > : you.
> > <snip>
> >
> > Nonsense.
> >
> > I've run nothing but nvidia's binary drivers for the past 5 years
> > under SuSE, Mandrake, and now Fedora and received all kinds of help.
> >
> > For the record, I have not once had a kernel crash due to the nvidia
> > drivers.  I have, on the other hand, received some of the best help
> > I've ever gotten from Mark Vojkovich who works (worked?)  at nvidia
> > and (I believe) is one of the authors of the driver.  Due to the
> > binary driver, I've been able to driver non-standard displays of all
> > kinds which no OS driver had a prayer of driving.  Nothing to do with
> > 3D either.
> >
> > Dean
> >
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