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[Karl-Heinz tm <karl-heinz_tm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:01:05 +0200
> From: dnh@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [opensuse] Nvidia vs ATI
>
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, Arun Khan wrote:
> > Experience with Nvidia BLOB has also been good, except that in 11.4 I
> > have not been able to get them to work (get blank screen).

FWIW, I have been running OS11.3 and 11.4 (and Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04) 
on a machine that features chipset-embedded NVidia graphics (GeForce 
9300), and for use cases as described by Stan I have never had any issues 
running the proprietary NVidia driver.

BR, Karl-Heinz

> Try the 270.41.06 from nVidia's website. That's a "known" good
> version. I don't know what's current in the nvidia Repo but there are
> some "bad" drivers out there that can fry some older cards (8xxx and
> 9xxx) reportedly. Ah, found it: avoid 270.61 and 275.33.
>
> HTH,
> -dnh
>
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