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From: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
To: J Sloan <jjs@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [RFC-ONT (on topic)] Modprobe enhancement (was Re:  "Dance of the Trolls")
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:34:13 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011112113413.F991@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1011111120107.21134C-100000@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk> <004601c16b0b$8b04bb80$f5976dcf@nwfs> <20011112110632.D991@zip.com.au> <3BEF16A5.A2006F4D@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BEF16A5.A2006F4D@pobox.com>

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 04:24:05PM -0800, J Sloan wrote:
> > Only if you can turn it off (ie a -[Yy] flag) as I don't really want my
> > boot sequence to hang just because I bought a geforce card so that I
> > could play my 3d games nice and fast.
> 
> Nothing against nvidia cards, of course -
> 
> But I play 3d games nice and fast here
> (quake 3 arena, wolfenstein)
> 
> BTW I'm using a voodoo 3 - well supported,
> no 3rd party drivers to download, it always
> just works, right from a fresh Linux install,
> and with all new kernels...

It was just my RL example. Such an (unnecessary) addition to modutils
would basically screw me.

Don't get me wrong though. I see tainting of the kernel by the addition
of a bin-only driver as necessary. I don't see why Alan Cox or anyone
else should support nvidia's drivers. It's upto nvidia to do it. IF they
want help, they should open the source up.

-- 
CaT        "As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help
           it. Each time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep
           floating through my mind."
                - Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang, Singapore Zoological Gardens

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-12  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-11  3:34 Nazi kernels lobo
2001-11-11  3:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-11  3:47 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-17  1:10   ` Jim Roland
2001-11-11  4:03 ` John Cavan
2001-11-11  4:09 ` Panagiotis Moustafellos
2001-11-11  5:35 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-11-11  5:58   ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-11-11 12:07     ` [Very-OT] " Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-11 12:28       ` samson swanson
2001-11-11 23:49       ` [RFC-ONT (on topic)] Modprobe enhancement (was Re: "Dance of the Trolls") Jeff V. Merkey
2001-11-12  0:06         ` CaT
2001-11-12  0:24           ` [OT] " J Sloan
2001-11-12  0:34             ` CaT [this message]
2001-11-12 14:01             ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-11-12  2:19         ` Keith Owens
2001-11-12  3:57           ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-11-12  9:13       ` [Very-OT] Re: Nazi kernels Bernd Petrovitsch
2001-11-12  9:33         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-12  9:38           ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2001-11-11 10:51 ` Alex Buell
2001-11-11 13:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-11 16:46   ` Idea (Was: Re: .... kernels) degger
2001-11-11 16:50   ` Nazi kernels Tom Diehl
2001-11-11 19:07   ` Matt
2001-11-12 13:23   ` Marco Colombo
2001-11-12  9:13 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2001-11-12 10:27 ` andrea gelmini
2001-11-12 10:32 ` DevilKin

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