[ILUG] Help with nVidia drivers install FC2

[Paul Mc Auley]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:21:24AM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
| On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, FRLinux wrote:

| > 6111 are out : http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6111.html
| >> From the readme, you might get lucky :
| > ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6111/README.txt

| Curious.. everyone who installs this binary only, kernel invading 
| driver, you're all gamers who need 3D right?

Yup, only gamers would want to use the NVidia driver.

- And people who use XScreensaver!

Ok, there are only two people who would want to use the NVidia driver,
gamers and xscreensaver users (weirdo).

- What about TV out?

Right, TV out I'll grant you, but apart from gaming, pretty screensaver
support and the ability to use a television as a cruddy monitor, what
has the binary only NVidia module ever done for us?


And so on. Yes, there is stuff we can't pick apart, but it's still better
than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick which is what some other
hardware vendors will give you if you ask them for Linux drivers
for their kit.

And yes, I do play games on my main PC, some of them even natively under
Linux. It's not like I'd install the drivers in a production environment.
	Paul