> 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: <snip>>>>> >>>>> 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. Sorry, I don't understand what you wrote. How does Linux make it "difficult to impossible"? It's an o/s, with POSIX calls, just like all the other unices. It's not M$, and it's not Apple... so is being neither making it hard? mark