Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:03:14 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
       James Porter <jameslporter@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Binary Drivers
In-Reply-To: <4583527D.4000903@dbservice.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0612161900090.30896@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
References: <loom.20061215T220806-362@post.gmane.org>
 <20061215220117.GA24819@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <4583527D.4000903@dbservice.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1155
Lines: 37


On Dec 16 2006 01:57, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:58PM +0000, James Porter wrote:
>> > For what it's worth, I don't see any problem with binary drivers from
>> > hardware
>> > manufacturers.
>> 
>> Binary drivers from hardware manufacturers are crap. Learn it by heart.
>
> That's your personal opinion! A lot other people (including me) have had
> excellent experience with binary drivers!

Either way.

 *  NVIDIA blob on a desktop box

    Ability to deadlock the machine, proved so in the past, but
    has not happened >= 1.0.7xxx so far.


 *  Free "radeon" driver on a laptop

    The _second_ time (relative to starting the X binary) I switch
    from Xorg 6.x to the console, the screen fades from black to
    white. System remains operational, switching back to X gives me
    my graphics mode back, but no way to go back to console.


	-`J'
-- 
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/