From: Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
   bad sector wrote:   
   > On 3/12/24 17:06, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2024-03-10 17:50, bad sector wrote:   
   >>> On 3/8/24 06:05, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>> On 2024-03-08 05:19, bad sector wrote:   
   >>>>> On 3/7/24 16:54, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 2024-03-07 22:15, bad sector wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> If it is an expensive, good, nvidia card, I would try hard and long.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In my case, when I had to replace the computer, I changed video   
   >>>> brand. The old machine is still using nvidia with nouveau, but   
   >>>> experiences locks.   
   >>>   
   >>> It cost around $200 years ago, good enough technically but if I had   
   >>> known the driver hell it woud bring me I would NEVER have bought it,   
   >>> the AMD should be here this week   
   >>   
   >> AMD could be hell ages ago; I don't remember the details, but they   
   >> stopped supporting certain range of cards, and the Linux own support   
   >> was primitive. Then one day AMD decided to do something in the line of   
   >> opening up their drivers or specs or both (again, I don't remember the   
   >> details). The thing is, that now their cards work very well out of the   
   >> box. The situation should be similar to Intel graphics, but Intel   
   >> neglects to solve bugs. I have a light machine and two laptops with   
   >> Intel graphics, and all have one problem or another.   
   >   
   > Similar story, in another life the 'other' (radion) cards had huge Linux   
   > driver problems and that's why i went to nvidia; looks like it's gone   
   > full circle  ..or at least a 180 :-)   
   >   
   >   
      
   The last time I went for nVidia was in 2008, and even then it was   
   because I'd forgotten to check what graphics the PC I was buying had.   
   Can't complain though, that machine worked (mostly) with nouveau until   
   it ceased working altogether.   
   The (mostly) was when the openSuse maintainer released a broken patch   
   for the kernel just before going on holiday for a few weeks, nouveau was   
   totally broken under that kernel until he came back.  At least the   
   previous kernel worked fine.   
      
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