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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