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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:59:58 +0100
From: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
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To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: 3D video card recommendations
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Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 08:42 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> 2) The vendor in the future stops considering the hardware you bought
>> important enough to spend time on; after all they got their cash and the
>> product cycles for consumer hardware are often in the 3 to 6 month
>> timeframe. Result: you're stuck with old kernels.
> 
> So far NVidia is good at having one driver to do most of their boards.
> It would take a major design change of a model to stop this, and by
> then, I would probably have a new video card anyway.

they just dropped support for the TNT2 (and old Geforce IIRC) boards
some months ago, so my son needed a new video card although the old one
was perfectly good.
-- 
seife
                                 Never trust a computer you can't lift.
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