On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 08:45, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:36, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 06:47, Russell Coker wrote: > > > I don't know which sub-version of the GeForce cards I'm using, I just got > > > whatever was cheapest at the time (you'd have to be crazy to buy a > > > high-end NVidia card - they release new models every 6 months and the old > > > models then sell for less than half price). > > > > Wow. Good point. I feel retarded now. (Sean's wallet is hurting after > > he replaced one of his old video cards which melted with a Geforce3 Ti > > 500 at x-mas.) > > That's another thing. If you buy an older model card in a tiny box with no > manuals etc for $150 and it melts you're not going to be nearly as unhappy as > if the same thing happens to a high-end $700 card that came with all manuals > etc.
^,^ I found out my motherboard was causing the problems, and managed to melt my new GeForce3, as well; but VisionTek has a lifetime warranty on their cards, so all was good. > > My observation is that if you buy a new cheap card every year you'll spend > less money than if you buy a new expensive card every second year, and on > average you'll have better hardware as a new cheap card is usually better > than a 1 year old expensive card. You have another point. Of course, this is all likely lost effort on me, because I'm also the person that wasted money I didn't have on the fastest motherboard, processor, and DDR memory I could find when I found out my old gamestation motherboard needed replacing... > > > When I plopped in the nVidia binary drivers, tho, I sure know it looked > > great. ^,^ Zangband has never looked so crisp... > > Zangband? Ya... um, like Nethack, but much much better, imo. If you're not familar with Nethack, then I think the joke will be entirely lost. ^,^ > > Speaking of the binary drivers, that logo and delay on X startup annoys me. > I'd like to get a patch that removes it (yes I know that means a binary > patch), if I can find such a patch (or be bothered writing one) then I'll > release some unofficial debs that do it. ;) You can disable it. There is an option to set in the Xconfig file. Somewhere, I forget exactly where, had the documentation on all the options. Actually, I think X might have auto-generated that for me from the driver... (X rules). > > > BTW I changed this from debian-devel to debian-user as it has nothing to do > with development. > > -- > If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines > of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do > whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by > posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
