On Tuesday 10 March 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: >Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> i have to side with ed on this one -- while we may not like closed >> source technology, nvidia has generally worked well for me when i've >> had to deal with it. > >Then why do we routinely get bug reports like (most recent one): >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487853 >because the nvidia driver broke yet another part of KDE? And KDE is not the >only stuff it breaks either. > > Kevin Kofler I'm on Kevin's side here folks. I regret it every time I load an nvidia driver. While running nvidia drivers I have had LSN0 of the boot drive zeroed out 3 times in as many years, which is a most interesting recovery problem (thanks to amanda its not permanently fatal), the last time about 10 minutes after I had installed the newest nvidia driver and rebooted to it. Discovered because that drive had a partition on it I don't normally mount, and when I tried to mount it, it wasn't there. Then fdisk said the drive had no partition table, and a dd read of the first sector showed it as all 00's hex. Nvidia's drivers tend to scribble all over memory they have no business reading, let alone writing to. I only have one nvidia card here, and I run it with the vesa driver which is way faster than the nv driver in a milling machine where IRQ response cannot tolerate any jitter or latency. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I used to get high on life but lately I've built up a resistance. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
