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Hi, |
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I've made the big mistake of bying an notebook w/ geforce go 6100. |
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The proprietary drivers *never* worked for me - the binary kernel |
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modules crashed the whole kernel (complete lockup) after a several |
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seconds (doesnt even need X to come up for that). |
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I've analyzed their module a bit and seen really bad things. |
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Looks it's a hand-written bunch of assembler code with massive |
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code obfuscation, just like Skype ;-o |
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IMHO, if someone spends so much work into machine code obfuscation, |
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he *really* has something to hide. Not just some "intellectual |
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property" (which is outdated alfter a few months). |
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Of course, opensource 3D support is (almost) not existing, |
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(2D works very fine), and NVidia repeatedly states that they |
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will NOT do the slightest attempt to improve the situation. |
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So I strongly suggest, NOT to buy NV cards. |
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(BTW: a few month ago, I managed to stop a customer from buying |
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several hundreds of NV cards - yes, consulting jobs sometimes |
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make really fun this way ;-P) |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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http://patches.metux.de/ |
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