Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Gary Dale: > On 29/07/12 03:21 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On 29/07/12 02:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > >> Interesting. You'd think NVidia would keep their proprietary drivers > >> current with their hardware. ATI certainly does. > >> > >> I wouldn't worry about support though. You can always fall back to > >> VESA modes until the drivers catch up. Unless NVidia suddenly > >> decides to stop providing Linux drivers, that won't be long. > > > > I didn't think that vesa mode was accelerated, and I thought that > > recent NVidia had decided to drop support for Linux. Wasn't there a > > story about Linus sending them a big "f**k you" response? > > > > Mike > > They didn't drop support for Linux - just for their open source driver > initiative. > > However, there is no doubt that NVidia are not great supporters of > Linux. That's why I only use ATI cards. I don't believe in supporting > companies who don't fit my core beliefs. I try not to buy from > sweatshops, child labour, repressive regimes, companies with poor > environmental records and from those who don't support open source. > > re. VESA modes. Yes, they are not accelerated. However they are usable > if you have no other working driver.
But it won´t be enough to make flightgear run well ;) So if Flightgear should run out of the box, I suggest a more careful choice. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201207312154.55254.mar...@lichtvoll.de
