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On 5/7/06, fire-eyes <sgtphou@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> I wish I could rip the ATI card out of this otherwise FANTASTIC laptop, and |
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> throw in an nvidia... but that can't happen. |
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Well, as someone who recently changed from an ATI to an NVidia laptop, |
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my view is that, while things _are_ better on this side of the fence |
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(better performance, Composite support (now even with OpenGL |
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applications!!), and so on), they are still far from perfect where |
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laptops are concerned. |
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NVidia fully supports suspend-to-ram....and my laptop will suspend and |
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resume to ram reliably...most of the time. The problem is that not |
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all drivers really work with suspend-to-ram. For example alsa loses |
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the BIOS-set pin configuration, causing the headphone pin to no longer |
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function (sound comes from speakers always). Also I have some |
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instability in timetracking with VMWare virtual machines after |
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resuming. |
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Now none of the above is NVidia's fault, and using suspend-to-disk is |
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the usual way of dealing with these issues, since the BIOS is started |
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and reconfigures everything they way it is supposed to be. NVidia has |
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just started to support suspend-to-disk, but my system will still fail |
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to resume at least 50% of the time. |
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The biggest complaint I have (and that I see frequently on the nvnews |
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forums) with NVidia's drivers is the time between releases. They used |
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to do a release about every two months, but lately that has slid to 4 |
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or even 5 months sometimes!! Which means I will probably have no |
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usable suspend-to-disk until September or October. |
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-Richard |
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