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From: Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] NVIDIA Driver 1.0-6111 fix
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 03:12:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <413A67EC.5080206@g-house.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094332949.6575.360.camel@krustophenia.net>

Lee Revell wrote:
> also never understood why people make so much noise about having to use
> a closed source driver to play A CLOSED SOURCE GAME!  What's next, a

i am not aware of any *good* open source ego-shooter a la UT/Q3 nor do i
have the skills to write one :-(

> I suspect many of these users are ricers who tweak CFLAGS and compare
> benchmark scores all day, and cannot bear to use the open source driver
[..bla...]

why do you think that? could you possibly image that some users just
have to deal with the hardware they get? i was *given* (read: it was a
2nd hand gift) a nvidia card. so i took the card, knowing that i have to
deal with nvidia's linux-drivers for myself.

> binary ones.  So fix it already, this is open source, and if you can't,
> then please learn to write code or STFU.

yes, exactly. but nobody was complaing about anything here in this
thread but you.

thanks,
Christian.
-- 
BOFH excuse #171:

NOTICE: alloc: /dev/null: filesystem full

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-05  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-04  0:17 NVIDIA Driver 1.0-6111 fix Sid Boyce
2004-09-04  6:28 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-09-04  9:25 ` Dominik Karall
2004-09-04  9:32   ` Sid Boyce
2004-09-04  9:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04  9:54   ` Tim Fairchild
2004-09-04  9:58     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04 19:56     ` Lee Revell
2004-09-04 21:02       ` Tim Fairchild
2004-09-04 21:22         ` Lee Revell
2004-09-04 22:09           ` Tim Fairchild
2004-09-05  1:12           ` Christian Kujau [this message]
2004-09-05  1:52             ` [OT] " Lee Revell
2004-09-05  2:03           ` Horst von Brand
2004-09-05  3:32             ` [OT] " Lee Revell
2004-09-05  5:29               ` Tim Fairchild
2004-09-05  5:57                 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-05 23:20             ` J.A. Magallon
2004-09-06  0:23               ` Lee Revell
2004-09-06 20:54             ` Alessandro Sappia
2004-09-05 12:03           ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-05 12:04           ` Alan Cox
2004-09-05 13:39             ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-09-05 14:37               ` Sid Boyce
2004-09-05 23:29             ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-04 21:22       ` Dominik Karall
2004-09-04 21:25         ` Lee Revell
2004-09-04 23:44       ` Paul Jakma
2004-09-05  6:27         ` Sid Boyce

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