Intel-Core2 Duo T7500 or AMD-Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-64

Darrin Chandler dwchandler at stilyagin.com
Wed Oct 24 20:19:37 MST 2007


On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:09:44PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > And given that many/most Linux users happily buy nvidia anyway, where's
> > nvidia's incentive to change their policy?
> ----
> happy is relative - though I am using nVidia drivers at the moment, I
> still occasionally get the black screen of death w/ beryl (yeah, lousy
> mb video) - I have given up beryl for the present.

I'm running the generic xorg 'nv' driver on mine because I don't want an
open source hostile company's binaries on my system. I don't get all the
features I should, but I feel a bit less exposed, and my computer
doesn't freeze up. :)

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