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From: Codewordt Gentoo Users <gentoo-user@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New releases & Nvidia drivers
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:19:41
Message-Id: 4768.146.176.62.22.1046434758.squirrel@dhruba.codewordt.co.uk
1 Robert Thomas said:
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5 > Codewordt Gentoo Users wrote:
6 > | Hello
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8 > | With recent new releases (XFree 4.3.0, Gentoo RC3,
9 > gentoo-sources-2.4.20) | I was wondering if I could make a plea that the
10 > new Nvidia drivers | 1.0.4191 be unmasked? They are already being
11 > widely utilised by the rest | of the distributions and certainly I've
12 > not had any problems with it | myself. Problems may occur when
13 > upgrading or downgrading but on a fresh | install in my experience it is
14 > more robust.
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16 > | If it is not at all possible to unmask can I be given an idea of
17 > timescale | and specific causes out of curiosity?
18 > |
19 > | Many thanks
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28 > Tuxracer crashes with the new drivers, and performace is worse on my
29 > box. If you want to use them, there's nothing stopping you, but I think
30 > they should stay masked. Hopefully the next version Nvidia releases will
31 > ~ be better.
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34 > Robert Thomas
35 > Georgia Institute of Technology
36 > Email: gtg663h@×××××××××××.edu
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