[ale] nvidia news

[William Fragakis]

The proprietary nvidia drivers have been a thorn in my side, too. From
what I can gather, it installs its own versions of opengl libraries
which then wrecks the intel video ability to do on my thin clients (ie
compiz). Trying to run either the nv or nouveau drivers means the thin
clients now work splendidly but the server has a useless desktop. As
it's attached to a nice 22" lcd, that's a total waste.

Time to chuck these cards on ebay and get some ATIs.

regards,
William

On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 08:05 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sat March 27 2010, Richard Faulkner wrote:
> > Based upon what I'm seeing today, random screen corruption, driver
> > integration and support issues; I'm not too hot on Nvidia anymore.  I
> > know ATI didn't have the best track record for Linux which is part of
> > the reason why I was looking to SuSE and Nvidia combination.  Too bad I
> > came to not prefer SuSE (9.10 is something that I'm happiest with so
> > far).
> >
> > I'm still tinkering with this over the weekend and am about to do some
> > more testing before my onsite this PM.
> 
> I ran SUSE 9.x, 10.0, 10.1 on my Dell desktop. Then, one day, it crashed, 
> wouldn't boot ( yes, I have an NVIDIA card, no , it wasn't a video problem). 
> None of my SUSE Cds would work, all crashed & burned. Pulled out a Debian CD 
> I had, it installed just fine. Installed KDE, because my wife was used to it, 
> and I kept that. I run gnome, my wife uses KDE, and I install the NVIDIA 
> drivers using sgfxi -c . I've tried other methods, but nothing seems to work 
> as well as the sgfxi -c. The NVIDIA non-free driver has been a thorn in my 
> side since my first Dell desktop running SUSE. Debian hasn't been any better. 
> Does HP use ATI cards? maybe it is time for a change of hardware?
>