Paul Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >> I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for >> that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after >> upgrading, X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe >> 'nvidia' manually, and then it loads, but with an error: >> >> I've googled for it but only found some kernel mailing list entries which >> I didn't understand. as a workaround I've added nvidia to '/etc/modules' >> but I was wondering if this problem can be solved. > > nVidia has actively demonstrated they don't care. > > Go return that video card and exchange it for an ATI Radeon, for which > there are better drivers, as well as open source drivers for the > Radeon that Just Work, and work way better than nVidia's proprietary > hack. I originaly thought about bying radeon (9500, or 9700) but when I've searched the mailing list I saw there were a lot of problems with the ATI drivers too, so I've decided to stick with nvidia (known evil against new evil...)
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