Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:03:14 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Binary Drivers |
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On Dec 16 2006 01:57, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:58PM +0000, James Porter wrote: >> > For what it's worth, I don't see any problem with binary drivers from >> > hardware >> > manufacturers. >> >> Binary drivers from hardware manufacturers are crap. Learn it by heart. > > That's your personal opinion! A lot other people (including me) have had > excellent experience with binary drivers!
Either way.
* NVIDIA blob on a desktop box
Ability to deadlock the machine, proved so in the past, but has not happened >= 1.0.7xxx so far.
* Free "radeon" driver on a laptop
The _second_ time (relative to starting the X binary) I switch from Xorg 6.x to the console, the screen fades from black to white. System remains operational, switching back to X gives me my graphics mode back, but no way to go back to console.
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