On Dec 16 2006 01:57, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:58PM +0000, James Porter wrote:
>> > For what it's worth, I don't see any problem with binary drivers from
>> > hardware
>> > manufacturers.
>>
>> Binary drivers from hardware manufacturers are crap. Learn it by heart.
>
> That's your personal opinion! A lot other people (including me) have had
> excellent experience with binary drivers!
Either way.
* NVIDIA blob on a desktop box
Ability to deadlock the machine, proved so in the past, but
has not happened >= 1.0.7xxx so far.
* Free "radeon" driver on a laptop
The _second_ time (relative to starting the X binary) I switch
from Xorg 6.x to the console, the screen fades from black to
white. System remains operational, switching back to X gives me
my graphics mode back, but no way to go back to console.
-`J'
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