Xfree GL still does not coexist with the nVidia drivers

[Joe]

Nils Philippsen wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:00, Joe wrote:
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>>Elton Woo wrote:
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>>>I'm starting to wonder if my next video card upgrade should be
>>>an ATI or Matrox instead. Both are made in Canada, and Matrox
>>>is in  Montreal West.
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>>Nah, after your box keeps locking up solid just from starting up an 
>>OpenGL game, you'll dump the ATI and put the nvidia back in :-)
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>>I've been there -
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>Hmm, my Radeon didn't crash on me in a very long time (with the OSS
>drivers and using 3D apps). I guess this depends on the card used. Mind
>that I also heard about Nvidias crashing so I don't see your point.
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Oh - my point is that I've got 10 or 20 linux boxes, and all of my 
desktops have nvidia cards now, as a result of bitter experience. As an 
avid player of quake 3 arena and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I think I 
probably have a lot more data points than most under my belt, and I know 
whereof I speak. Yeah, I've heard the rumors about nvidias crashing too 
- and I'm not sure what to make of them - much as I'd like to make my 
nvidia cards crash, I just haven't been able to do it. Mind you, I 
really wanted to give ATI my business, but it was a very bad experience 
and they really don't seem to care about Linux as much as nvidia does. 
Drivers - closed source, opensource, just give me a good, solid, fast 
linux driver and I'm happy. nvidia has done that, and 3dfx did too, 
before they went under. I haven't seen any other video card 
manufacturers work so hard to earn my business.

Best Regards,

Joe