[H-GEN] oops - debian unstable woes

[Sandra Milne]

At 22:30 7/01/2003 +1000, you wrote:

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>On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 09:54, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> > And by the by, I don't think I can recommend the nvidia drivers,
> > either.  The only time I had a box with an NV card in it, I tried the
> > drivers a few time and found the whole deal to be wholly unpleasant.
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>I'll second this.  I stopped using the NVidia drivers when X started
>taking up 900MB of memory.

How did get OpenGL working at better than 3 fps without using the NVidia 
drivers?

>By the way, ATI's closed-source drivers work very well.  Of course, you
>don't need them, as the open source DRI modules work almost as well as
>ATI's closed-source drivers :-)


Unfortunately I can't afford an ATI card at this stage. Perhaps in 6 months 
time when they're a little outdated I might be able to scrape together the 
cash.

Sandra.

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