On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 06:28 -0400, David wrote: > If you buy an Nvidia video card and install it into a box that is > running a Windows OS and then boot it it works. You insert the CD that > came with the card and install the 'better' driver and reboot it > works. If you're lucky... I've seen plenty of Windows users who've had some peripheral, usually sound or graphics cards, that's always been a right bitch. Brand new fresh Windows install, using the drivers that came with Windows. Then trying installing the drivers that came with the hardware, onto that fresh Windows install. Then, getting the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website, and still having problems. And, then you get desperate and try the not-quite-the-latest drivers from their website, dumb tweaks you read about on websites, and after a year or so of putting up with bad behaviour from the card, you buy a replacement. Rinse, lather, repeat. I can't think of a brand of peripheral where I haven't seen that sort of thing at some time. e.g. NVidia, ATI... and with Creative being the most common pain in the bum. Odd that, that one of the most common sound cards of the lot, Soundblaster, used to be the biggest pain in the neck of any sound card to get going, for many years. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
