Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:59:58 +0100 | From | Stefan Seyfried <> | Subject | Re: 3D video card recommendations |
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Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 08:42 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> 2) The vendor in the future stops considering the hardware you bought >> important enough to spend time on; after all they got their cash and the >> product cycles for consumer hardware are often in the 3 to 6 month >> timeframe. Result: you're stuck with old kernels. > > So far NVidia is good at having one driver to do most of their boards. > It would take a major design change of a model to stop this, and by > then, I would probably have a new video card anyway.
they just dropped support for the TNT2 (and old Geforce IIRC) boards some months ago, so my son needed a new video card although the old one was perfectly good. -- seife Never trust a computer you can't lift. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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