nvidia trouble and breaking in a supposedly LTS release

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Good figures from glxgears is nice for bragging rights, but the real question 
> is, will it do the job?  For this particular job, only the vesa driver works 
> well.  And should I have a problem, dmesg doesn't bitch that my kernel is 
> tainted.

Gene, isn't there an ASCII text front-end that would do the job for your
milling machine??? Then you'd have zilch for overhead if you could use
no desktop or X11.  <grins> Ric