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On 07/05/13 21:34, Simon Waters wrote: > On 07/05/13 20:35, bad apple wrote: >> On 07/05/13 19:44, Daniel Robinson wrote: >>> Ask Bad Apple, ohh wait! >> Ok, that did make me laugh :] > Time for specialists? > > I would have said try Gravity Boy on #debian. > > Except these days probably the best place is #debian-x, I note a user > "gravity" is lurking there.... > > What is that in the topic I see "Logs or it didn't happen"... > > Of course there is the danger if it is a closed source driver they'll > say "use the source" or words to that effect. > > Fear not, I *am* a specialist... I just need to find time to sit down and puzzle through it. I've dealt with far worse in the world of X before. It's just infuriating that I need to bother, which to be honest, I don't really. Ubuntu is hereby permanently demoted to VMs for me, I just don't consider it a functional OS anymore. The danger with using the open source nouveau is far greater: 1: it often doesn't work at all 2: has far inferior performance 3: most importantly, I need CUDA One happy day far in the future I'm sure either Nvidia will give in and fully open source their linux drivers (actually, I'm not at all sure about that) or Nouveau will exceed them in capability and performance. However, I need to do work RIGHT NOW so tainted kernels ahoy. Considering that I usually need AMD drivers, various odd wifi hardware drivers and VirtualBox/VMware all loaded as well I don't very often run a non-tainted kernel anyway so I really don't give a crap about having a beautiful untainted dmesg. Regards PS: thanks for the tips on that user though, if it comes to it, I'll look him up -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq