On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:57:53 +0100, Bryan O'Donoghue <bryano at europlex.ie>
wrote:
> I don't really think it is that functional. Perhaps it is, the linked
> page casts doubt on that and there's quite a bit of information on ye
> olde interweb about how to get the nvidia driver to do what I wanted it
> to do...
Sure.
> Yes, I sold out.
I wouldn't say that. There's nothing wrong with using the binary
driver per se, just that it makes debugging hellishly difficult.
There are other more political arguments which have merit but
which many just are not interested in.
[-]
> That's simple enough. I'm fairly sure the nv driver didn't support that
> at the time, I'm not sure if it does now... but, it's probably worthing
> looking into.
You're right. It probably didn't at the time. Note, people would
love to program accelerated 3D support in to the nv driver if specs
were made available, even just for older chipsets. But this is a
tired old debate - apologies for trying to influence your choice
of graphics driver.
Dermot.
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