nVidia Computer

[Pastor JW]

On Monday 14 April 2008 01:40:54 pm Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> Karl, I have a Gateway GT 5656 AMD64 X2 and LG 22 "
> lcd monitor with nVidia MB.  It seldom crashes and
> never in the manor you describe. Ever so often a
> firefox browser screen will lock up requiring a kill
> of firefox and restart with nothing lost. I may have
> had one or two hard crashes early on reguiring a hard
> reboot after installing gutsy x86_64 version but not
> recently. I did put in a cheap nVidia G71 GeForce 7300
> GS card to use the proprietary driver which works ok.
> The NIC is a Marvel brand.
>
> 2. VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71
> [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1)
>
> 3. I'm using the regular nv driver. Haven't gotten
> around to the proprietary driver yet.
> i A xserver-xorg-video-nv
>     - X.Org X server -- NV display driver
>
> 4. Not quite as much as you. My sudo lspci:
> [sudo] password for lchata:
> 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory
> Controller (rev a1)
> 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC
> Bridge (rev a2)
> 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
> 00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory
> Controller (rev a2)
> 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB
> Controller (rev a3)
> 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB
> Controller (rev a3)
> 00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI
> bridge (rev a1)
> 00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High
> Definition Audio (rev a2)
> 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE
> (rev a2)
> 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA
> Controller (rev a2)
> 00:08.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA
> Controller (rev a2)
> 00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI
> Express bridge (rev a2)
> 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI
> Express bridge (rev a2)
> 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI
> Express bridge (rev a2)
> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology
> Configuration
> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
> 01:06.0 Communication controller: Conexant Unknown
> device 2f40
> 01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments
> TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation
> G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1)
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group
> Ltd. 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
>
> 5.Not knowledgeable enough to recommend how to salvage
> but if using the onboard video you might try a cheap
> card as I did. My onboard graphics is nvidia 6150s as
> I recall and have never used it. I also suspect you
> are using the 32 bit i386 version instead of the
> X86_64.
>

Because of nVidia's complete disregard of their users needs, thousands like 
myself avoid nVidia almost as much as we avoid windoze.  My latest computer, 
bought this month and recieved just last week, was in fact based on the best 
I found with any other video system BUT nVidia.   Users want things which 
work the way the USER wants to use them, (...for me that also means loaded 
with Linux) not the way some narrow minded company wishes to FORCE a person 
merely supplying the money to use it.  Ubuntu is new to me also because I 
wanted a machine with an operating system NOT windoze installed on it!  Nice 
move Dell!  There may be hope for you yet!   


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