Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3784 mails)

[J.Drews <j.e.drews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 01 October 2001 10:36 pm, you wrote:
>  What bothers me about Nvidia is their not too swift
> support in terms of drivers, (historically), and fixes for bugs...

 Exactly! I allowed myself to be strung along by nVIDIA for 18 months. I bet 
they have one guy at nVIDIA working on those damn drivers. The lmore 
experienced inux users can get them to work but for newcomers it's just hell. 
Go look at nVIDIA's instructions for installing the kernel patch.  In the 
last two hours there were posts about the nVIDIA drivers. nVIDIA isn't a 
graphics card chipset, it's a disease people should recover from. 

> So, what would you and others recommend?

 Well I switched from my Diamond Viper 770D (nVIDIA TNT2) to a 64 Mb ATI 
Radeon card. This is 3D card. I decided to do that after reading on ATI's web 
site that they make the details of their cards available to XFree86.org. I am 
sure there are other good card manufacturers too. 

 I posted those comments to warn newbies, who are sure to come as Linux 
becomes easier to install and KDE and GNOME mature. (FYI GNOME Abiword 9.4 
was released tonight; it has enhanced features that allow reading M$ docs.)  
Basically SuSE has so many applications to learn that it's shame to expend 
hours agonizing over inscrutible software crashes. So what if ATI's Radeon is 
300 fps slower. It just flat works. No antialiasing corruptions, no surprises 
with software packages. Mind you, I am not trying to start a holy war about 
video cards. However it must be born in mind that to post glowing accounts 
about nVIDIA is an advertisement for newbies to pickup a computer equipped 
with one. When they install Linux on it, they are in for a nasty surprise.

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							Cheers,

							Jonathan