http://www.nob13.de/blog/?p=240 places, photos, culture Sat, 08 May 2010 13:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.nob13.de/blog/?p=240&cpage=1#comment-2246 nob Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:30:15 +0000 http://www.nob13.de/blog/?p=240#comment-2246 ok, i forgot old nvidia boards too ;) ok, i forgot old nvidia boards too ;)

]]> http://www.nob13.de/blog/?p=240&cpage=1#comment-2245 Stephen Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:11:18 +0000 http://www.nob13.de/blog/?p=240#comment-2245 My 5 or 6 year old low end Athlon with $50 nvidia card still rocks under ubuntu. My current uptime is 39 days. I had to reboot getting my scsi scanner to work (i hadn't bothered for over a year, as i hadn't any need for it). I might have gotten Linux to rescan the scsi bus without reboot, but couldn't remember the command, and was in too much of a hurry to look it up. Before that, it had been up for 200+ days. All to say that my video driver is not unstable, and has not been the cause of a crash. I do recall an X death - though it may not have resulted in a reboot. I consider X death to be a crash even without a reboot. While i like having the gpu perform scrolling and enjoy first person shooter games, i value reliability higher. And when faced with having an unreliable driver or a slow driver, i've gone with a slow driver every time. This was painful on my Pii, but it is very tolerable on my Athlon, though fps games don't work. My 5 or 6 year old low end Athlon with $50 nvidia card still rocks under ubuntu. My current uptime is 39 days. I had to reboot getting my scsi scanner to work (i hadn’t bothered for over a year, as i hadn’t any need for it). I might have gotten Linux to rescan the scsi bus without reboot, but couldn’t remember the command, and was in too much of a hurry to look it up. Before that, it had been up for 200+ days. All to say that my video driver is not unstable, and has not been the cause of a crash. I do recall an X death – though it may not have resulted in a reboot. I consider X death to be a crash even without a reboot. While i like having the gpu perform scrolling and enjoy first person shooter games, i value reliability higher. And when faced with having an unreliable driver or a slow driver, i’ve gone with a slow driver every time. This was painful on my Pii, but it is very tolerable on my Athlon, though fps games don’t work.

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