Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:04:59 -0700 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | [OT] Re: Athlon XP 1800+ segemntation fault |
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Steven J. Hill wrote:
> I too have the MSI K7D Master. As Alan mentioned, the 2.4.19-rc2-ac2 > patch works fine. My machine has been rock solid and I'm running dual > XP 2000+. However, I'm running Radeon 8500 (I refused to give my money > to a company that doesn't release it's drivers).
hmm, you must mean nvidia - well, their drivers are not GPL'd, but they did go to the trouble of writing the best 3D drivers available for Linux - they seem to get a lot of heat here despite that. Yes, it would be better if they were GPL'd - but if I have a choice between fast, up-to-date nvidia drivers, or unfinished, poorly performing, crash-prone, bit-rotted GPL'd drivers, I'd have to go with what works.
When there's 3D linux support for ATI cards that can provide performance anywhere near Nvidia's, I'll be glad to buy ATI cards - but me tell you, for us 100% Linux shops, Nvidia is really the only game in town since 3dfx went under!
Joe
(Having played many happy hours of RcTW running 2.4.19-rc -aa and NVdriver-1.0-2960)
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