linux-kernel - Re: Binary Drivers

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0612161900090.30896@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:03:14 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Tomas Carnecky <tom@...ervice.com>
cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	James Porter <jameslporter@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Binary Drivers


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'
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