<QUOTE> http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/201255
Augustus writes "LinuxHardware.org just published a review looking at NVIDIA's latest driver. "Monday, NVIDIA took the next step in their strive to own the Linux video market with the release of their 1.0-4349 drivers. These drivers represent a first in the Linux driver market, a utility that not only installs the drivers on any distribution, but also keeps the driver up-to-date. We now take a look at this new utility and the drivers themselves. ... </QUOTE>
anyone tried the new NVIDIA driver installer yet?
Keith ____________ 'I always use the word impossible with the greatest caution.' - Wernher Von Braun
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:21:34PM +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/201255
Augustus writes "LinuxHardware.org just published a review looking at NVIDIA's latest driver. "Monday, NVIDIA took the next step in their strive to own the Linux video market with the release of their 1.0-4349 drivers. These drivers represent a first in the Linux driver market, a utility that not only installs the drivers on any distribution, but also keeps the driver up-to-date. We now take a look at this new utility and the drivers themselves. ...anyone tried the new NVIDIA driver installer yet?
Seeing it is there in gentoo.. I am going to test it out right now on this laptop :)
Keith Watson Keith.Watson@Kewill.com wrote:
NVIDIA's latest driver. "Monday, NVIDIA took the next step in their strive to own the Linux video market with the release of their 1.0-4349
I think they meant 0wn. Auto-updating binary-only drivers. Do they have good security in place, or is the "mass nvidia driver users' blowout" only a download site exploit away, I wonder.
I'll stick with the XFree86's own nv drivers on the box here that has their chips until I replace that hardware.
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