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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
