On 5/27/2010 1:39 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Les wrote: >> On 5/27/2010 1:00 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: >>>> >>>>> I had somewhat similar problems. This is a shot in the dark, but do >>>>> you happen to have a Nvidia controller in your system? If >>>>> so, you may have been affected by this bug: >>>>> >>>>> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4335 >>>>> >>>>> There is a workaround which solved the problem for me. >>>> >>>> Thanks for the hint! >>>> I tried the workaround but unfortunately I still have the problem... >>> >>> I cured my nvidia driver problems (which re-arose every kernel update or >>> re-compile) by putting in an ATI video card. Problems since then = 0 >>> >>> nvidia is not fond of the Linux world (compared to ATI). >> >> A more realistic way to say that is that linux is intentionally >> incompatible with a lot of other software. > > Ah, no, it's not. Brian had it right: nvidia does keep a lot proprietary, > and does *not* pay a lot of attention to writing their own drivers for > Linux. Exactly - and it is linux that intentionally makes it difficult to impossible to use such software even if others would like to give it to you on their own terms. Just put the blame in the right place. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com