On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:47:46AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:If all else fail - an *old* card. This wasn't a problem before,
You're not. Complain to nvidia - using both email and snailmail.
If everybody with such problems did that, chances are they see
the light someday. Oh, and complain to the guy handing out
nvidia cards like confetti, state your preference for some other
card. Perhaps that is easier to achieve.
What card would you recomend to people?
I have the impression that 2D is fine with ATI cards, even those
Whats wrong with tainting? It is just a message, telling you that
the kernel is unsupported. In this case because you're running a
closed-source module. The tainting message itself does not do
anything bad. There is a way - which is to write an open nvidia
driver. To do that, you'll need to get the specs out of nvidia or
figure it out by reverse-engineering some other nvidia driver. Either
approach is hard, so people generally find it cheaper to just buy
a supported card.
It is becoming harder and harder to find supported cards it seems.
Finding a card with decent 2D drivers for X can still be done, but 3D is
just not really an option it seems. Even 2D seems to be a problem on
many cards if you don't use a binary only driver.