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Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:24:05 -0800
From: J Sloan <jjs@pobox.com>
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CaT wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 04:49:46PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > Anton,
> >
> > This is a great suggestion.  You should ping Keith Owens (does he own
> > modutils, I think so) and make it happen.  A much desireable change.
>
> 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...

Just a thought....

jjs

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