From: James Davies <james_m_davies@yahoo.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kiril Vidimce <vkire@pixar.com>, Dan Maas <dmaas@dcine.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed
Date: 07 Dec 2001 23:10:36 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1007730652.1575.1.camel@Lord> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16CHXs-0005DY-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16CHXs-0005DY-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 19:43, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The nVidia kernel drivers are open source. You can get them from
> > ftp://ftp.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/XFree86_40/1.0-2313/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2313.tar.gz
>
> The Nvidia drivers are not open source. Please stop pedalling this myth. All
> you are doing is risking confusing other unfortunates into buying nvidia
> hardware and finding there is no open 3D support.
I wan't trying to state that it is GPL or similar, but the kernel driver
source code IS available for free under a restrictive license. the GLX
drivers are closed.
> > bad rep. But the 1.0 series are faster and more stable than their
> > windows counterparts- I havn't had one crash, even with a faulty card
> > that kills windows constantly.
>
> So tell me why I keep getting people who remove the Nvidia drivers and have
> their machine work. I'm sure some of them are hardware related issues, but
> all of them ?
I can't comment on the stability in all configurations, but I've found
them to work quite well with my box since 1.0 came out. the 0.9 serious
were notorious for crashing though.
> Alan
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.kit1f7v.j024op@ifi.uio.no>
2001-12-07 7:24 ` kernel: ldt allocation failed Dan Maas
2001-12-07 9:00 ` Kiril Vidimce
2001-12-07 9:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07 9:13 ` Kiril Vidimce
2001-12-07 9:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07 9:26 ` James Davies
2001-12-07 9:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07 13:10 ` James Davies [this message]
2001-12-07 13:41 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-07 13:59 ` James Davies
2001-12-07 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07 9:45 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-12-07 10:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-06 16:58 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-02-06 13:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-06 17:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-12-07 10:12 ` Anton Altaparmakov
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112070057480.20196-100000@tombigbee.pixar.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <5.1.0.14.2.20011207092244.049f6720@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <200202061258.g16CwGt31197@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-02-06 13:19 ` Andi Kleen
2002-02-06 14:06 ` Dave Jones
2002-02-06 14:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-06 14:09 ` Andi Kleen
2002-02-06 14:39 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-06 16:37 ` bert hubert
2002-02-06 15:51 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-06 16:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-06 16:29 ` John Levon
2002-02-06 18:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-06 18:02 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-02-06 15:12 ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-02-06 18:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-02-06 20:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-06 21:15 ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-02-06 21:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-06 20:21 ` yodaiken
2002-02-06 21:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-06 21:31 ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-02-06 22:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-06 22:20 ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-02-06 23:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-07 0:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-07 0:12 ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-02-07 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-07 0:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-06 15:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07 5:40 Kiril Vidimce
2001-12-07 5:58 ` Jeffrey H. Ingber
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