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On Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> * Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> > > Actually, Nvidia's binary crap *never* worked for me (GeForce Go 6100). |
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> > > All the versions I tried (all from portage, even the hard masked), |
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> > > crashed the whole machine (!) a few seconds after the Xserver |
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> > > came up. Seem their kernel driver is heavily broken. |
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> > maybe it is YOUR HARDWARE that is crap? Overheating? Bad PSU that |
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> > is not able to reliable power the 3d part of the core? |
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> Quite uncertain. The machine is very stable w/o the NV drivers. |
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> But just loading the kernel module and waiting a few mins |
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> ends up in an total lockup. I could 100% reproduce this problem with |
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> several nv-chipset based notebooks (different geforce versions). |
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> Ah, and there had been an preinstalled Vista on that box, which |
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> worked perfectly with 3D stuff. |
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> So I don't think it's an hw issue. |
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and vista has a much better power managment than linux - could still be |
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overheating. |
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> > hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of nvidia-on-linux users don't |
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> > have problems. |
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> Where do you got these numbers from ? NV marketing dept.? |
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from the fact that most people who use nvidia never have problems. But vocal |
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minority with problems is very - well, vocal. |
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People are quiet until they hit a problem.... a good indicator are 'which card |
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to buy' threads. Most people say 'nvidia, had no problems' a few say 'I had |
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problems with nvidia' and all ati users had problems.... |
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