From: "Jan Ciger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
>> Well Mandrake cant do anything about Nvidia proprietary drivers, >> that's all up to nVidia... >> >> thomas > > I know, that Mandrake could not do much, because of the nature of the drivers, > but something went wrong IMHO, because the same version of drivers worked > fine with 4.2.x series of XFree on Mandrake 9.0, but screws my display up > after few minutes on Mandrake 9.1. That reason should be identified and > either fixed or reported to Nvidia as bug. > Some of theese problems may be because we have newer gcc/glibc, than the version ysed to compile the binary-only parts of nVidias drivers... This we can't do anything about... We just have to wait for nVidia to make updated drivers... I have been sending bug reports / support requests to nVidia once a week for the last couple of months ... BUT NO ANSWER... :-( I have even requested nVidia developer account to get some attention, but so far... nothing ... (and the next question... if I get this account, how much of this info is legal to add to GPL software...) > If the Mandrake user has only two choices to have reasonable 3D on Linux and > both of them are buggy (screen corruptions, crashes etc.), it is a pretty > sorry state of the affairs ... > There is an other problem here that is very hard to address, and that is quality differencies in different manufacturers cards... Some people report that their Geforce4 screws up big time with some drivers, but for others they are the best drivers ever... Now there is no way for MDK to address this problem, as it should be adressed by nVidia, since they keeps the specs/driver source "well guarded"... ;-) We'll have to try to make the best of what we have, and hopefully nVidia will roll out new drivers for MDK 9.1 Thomas
