Daily Kernel Panics

Hiisi very-cool at rambler.ru
Sun Dec 20 16:44:29 UTC 2009


2009/12/20 Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>:
> On 12/19/2009 10:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Steven Stern wrote:
>>> On 12/13/2009 07:25 AM, Globe Trotter wrote:
>>
<--SNIP-->
>>>
>> Note that in the above example of a stable system, item 3. I have had
>> about equal numbers of people tell me that the vendor driver is vastly
>> more stable than the built-in driver, and totally the opposite.
>>
>> Oh, and some fundamentalist open source fanatics who tell me it's better
>> to crash a few times a day than use a closed source driver. ;-)
>>
>> The only "desktop effect" of interest to me is stability.
>>
>
> Agreed on your final point.  Just for grins, I'm downloading and will
> try the Radeon X300 drivers directly from ATI with Compiz enabled.
>
>
>
> --
>
>  Steve

'Directly from ATI' you will have to compile them manually. I think
it's better use rpm [1].
Just my 2 cents...

Links:
1. http://rpmfusion.org/RPMFusionSwitcher
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