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On Friday 28 February 2003 10:54, Codewordt Gentoo Users wrote: |
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> Hello |
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> With recent new releases (XFree 4.3.0, Gentoo RC3, gentoo-sources-2.4.20) |
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> I was wondering if I could make a plea that the new Nvidia drivers |
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> 1.0.4191 be unmasked? They are already being widely utilised by the rest |
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> of the distributions and certainly I've not had any problems with it |
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> myself. Problems may occur when upgrading or downgrading but on a fresh |
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> install in my experience it is more robust. |
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I disagree. 3d performance is better but 2d performance is abysmal, also due |
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to the new drivers not using xaa anymore (they use their own stuff in the new |
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drivers). Also, some machines don't have problems, and some do. See here: |
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http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?forumid=14 |
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I say keep 'em masked. Of course there's nothing wrong with you guys using |
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them. If they work for you, great. |
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> If it is not at all possible to unmask can I be given an idea of timescale |
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> and specific causes out of curiosity? |
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Maybe next driver release? |
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Cheers, |
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Emiel |
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