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To: J Sloan <jjs@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [RFC-ONT (on topic)] Modprobe enhancement (was Re:  "Dance of the Trolls")
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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
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