From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZuBw-0003pS-7c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:38:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 423EDE0949; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:38:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9ADFFE0949 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:38:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2008 20:38:16 -0000 Received: from krlh-4d020259.pool.mediaWays.net (EHLO aldous.mblan) [77.2.2.89] by mail.gmx.net (mp052) with SMTP; 13 Mar 2008 21:38:16 +0100 X-Authenticated: #428074 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/2X6YA95n24wfmQjGyGmw9iD+3kC1UWGtPC0mdtD WKcnldVgZAkvkc Received: by aldous.mblan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 515A714F582; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:38:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:38:16 +0100 From: Matthias Bethke 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 Message-ID: <20080313203816.GD7982@aldous> References: <1204889544.12884.14.camel@fandango> <47D79D8E.4060205@aim.com> <20080313093229.GA14563@nibiru.local> <47D951AB.3020008@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-ripemd160; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47D951AB.3020008@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 245bd4e0-d9ba-4cf3-b469-c9a6b3a80cba X-Archives-Hash: 2e8503f059c80ffb89799c4c1e12c070 --QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > 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 --=20 I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 --QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH2ZC4SNkXAPrDdmURA8jpAKCt2uSgexQv68V7xaPFJ1zoSLapYACfeSnx cXhFeUBOeA6+2fTtkCZ+KOs= =qddL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list