3D Support for NVIDIA

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Mon Dec 17 23:35:32 UTC 2007


Dean S. Messing writes:

> 
> 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.

Good for you.

Sadly, not everyone is as fortunate, or as lucky, as you are. A Google 
search will uncover plenty of horror stories of bricked x.org or kernels.

If you take a roll of the dice and it works, great. If not, you're boned.

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