From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 16:06:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 16:06:32 -0400 Received: from freeside.toyota.com ([63.87.74.7]:3852 "EHLO freeside.toyota.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 16:06:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3D517E9C.9080707@lexus.com> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 13:10:04 -0700 From: J Sloan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020802 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob_Tracy CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [OT] Re: PROBLEM: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:117! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org My experience with NVidia drivers has been all good - However ATI is hopeful, we need some competition. I found that a radeon worked well, in terms of 3D screensavers, and quake 3 arena - however starting RtCW resulted in immediate hard lockup, every time - no ping, no sysrq. People are working on ATI drivers, who knows, maybe there will be something usable soon. Joe Bob_Tracy wrote: >Consider this an invitation for any NVidia employee "in the know" (who >also reads this list) to comment. Even a hearty "f*ck off" would beat >the world-class lettin' alone the linux community is currently getting. > >Linux zealots who insist I should vote with my dollars are cordially >invited to suggest alternative video cards that (1) are fully >supported under Linux, and (2) perform as well as the NVidia cards do >(when the NVidia driver doesn't crash my system, that is). I have two >informal benchmarks I care about: the OpenGL "lament" screensaver, and >Unreal Tournament. > > >