From: Matthias Bethke <matthias@towiski.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers ==> Cannot switch to ttys or close X
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:38:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080313203816.GD7982@aldous> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47D951AB.3020008@gmail.com>
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Hi 7v5w7go9ub0o,
on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:09:15PM -0400, you wrote:
> Help, please! I'm thinking of building a new box: asus p5e/intel core2
> quad. I had thought of getting an NV. Would ATI be the better choice?
As far as I've heard, all proprietary graphics drivers on Linux suck but
NVidia's suck a little less. I've had big stability problems as well
with 169.09-r1 on an el-cheapo GeForce 7300 but 169.12 has been rock
solid for about a week now. At the speed any modern chip runs at, I
don't feel the need for any framebuffer tricksi any more---the console
runs in regular 1980s VGA 80x25 text mode which is fine for the boot
process, after that I use gnome-terminal in fullscreen mode which looks
just like a framebuffer console but with full unicode support and
everything.
cheers,
Matthias
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-13 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-07 11:32 [gentoo-user] Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers ==> Cannot switch to ttys or close X andrea
2008-03-12 9:08 ` Patric
2008-03-13 9:32 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-03-13 16:04 ` andrea
2008-03-13 16:09 ` [gentoo-user] " 7v5w7go9ub0o
2008-03-13 20:38 ` Matthias Bethke [this message]
2008-03-14 7:53 ` andrea
2008-03-14 11:12 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-03-14 12:36 ` Matthias Bethke
2008-03-14 11:04 ` Enrico Weigelt
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