[LUAU] Mainline (generic) 2.6 kernel with FC2
Hawaii Linux Institute
wp at HawaiiLinux.us
Mon Apr 26 11:31:14 PDT 2004
If "you" (as in "yours truly") are stupid enough to have bought
nForce2-based mobos, everytime I upgraded to a new kernel, my USB mouse
stopped working. Ditto for USB-based remote keyboards. I can live, at
least temporarily, with no NIC driver. But not w/o mouse and keyboard
(as well as other USB-based peripherals). The only way to get around
this problem is to always have a PS2 mouse ready; plug that in and then
re-install the nForce drivers as soon as I was able to boot into the
system. Now try to tell that to your "clients".
On the video side, the main difference b/t nVidia and ATI, IMO, is that
the latter is more actively involved in developing the open-source
version of its drivers (or more open with its specs). . . . whereas
nVidia seems to be "almost" (give them benefit of the doubt) exclusively
focused on their proprietary drivers.
W/o participation from their creators, nVidia cards suck under the "nv"
driver. The open-sourced versions of Raedon drivers seem to be only one
version behind the most current proprietary version. The graphics of my
HP ze4560 notebook (with a mobile Raedon 9200) with the default driver
works surprisingly and noticeably better than my GeForce4 under nv.
Linux has progressed to a stage where it's the little things that
count. Of course, I am sure nVidia will change. But until that
happens, stay away from their products. wayne
Eric Hattemer wrote:
> 1. The nv driver that ships with the OS does the same software
> rendering other open source drivers do. 2. The ati open source driver
> is not made by ati, and has very little hardware rendering functionality.
> 3. The only thing on the nforce boards that require drivers is the
> network card, and I'm not even sure that's true anymore. 4. There is
> an nvidia installer option that allows installation of multiple
> modules. I believe its -k, but check NVIDIA*.sh -A; for the advanced
> options. 5. With this in mind, I don't think there is reason to not
> buy NVIDIA stuff. There aren't really any reasonable alternatives
> besides ATi.
> But on the plus side, the upper range of ATi Radeon cards do seem to
> outperform (outbenchmark) the upper range of NVidia cards.
> -Eric Hattemer
>
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