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Oct 04 2008

I’ve had it with Nvidia

Posted by: bigbolshevik in Proprietry software, Ubuntu

Somebody suggested I run some programs from Test 2 while playing a 3D game. So I did just that - I started up the programs, I started System Monitor, opened World Of Padman, played for a couple of minutes, and then quit. And X crashed. Tried to start up again, and crashed.

So I checked the Xorg log. And surprise surprise, the last item in the backtrace is the fucking Nvidia driver! It crashed my system to force a restart YET AGAIN!

What’s the fucking point of having a 3D driver if it’s going to crash straight after playing a 3D game? TELL ME WHAT IS THE POINT?! Not only does it crash after playing 3D games, it crashes at arbitrary times!

It’s not like I’m using an obsolete version of the driver, either - I’m using the latest version that was released in July. It’s supposedly a “stable” version. Plus, of course, you still hear people in the Ubuntu Forums complaining of the same problem I initially had, which was videos looking yellow (or some other colour) when the Nvidia driver is loaded.

That’s simply bloody unacceptable. If they’re going to write a driver for Linux, they should write one that’s reasonably good quality. To my knowledge, Linda’s computer (with integrated ATI graphics) doesn’t crash like this. My father’s computer, also with integrated ATI graphics, doesn’t crash either.

I’m very close to disabling the driver again and running on the open-source “nv” 2D driver, because it’s just too frustrating to have crashes all caused by one bloody binary blob. Even if it means I can’t play Yo Frankie.

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