On Tuesday 16 December 2003 18:34, MJ Ray wrote:
"nvidia" is a proprietary software driver from the manufacturer, which has 3D support but has caused problems almost every time I've encountered it.
I keep reading this, but I've never encountered it.
For me, over various Linux Distributions and various nvidia cards from TNT2's to the low end Gforce 4 I am running now, I have never had a problem with either stability or installation that was caused by the Nvidia drivers.
The closest I have come was my current machine when it was young, crashing infrequently. and that turned out to be a Kernel issue with AGP and the Chipset (Via) it just so happened that it only occurred when the Graphics subsystem was being pushed, therefore I suspected the Card drivers.
In fact I'd go as far to say that the quality of both the Windows and Linux drivers for Nvidia cards has kept me buying them for 3-4 years now.