apt should probabally never even atempt to update a tainted kernel so thats a bug in apt
the laptop suspends fine with the NV driver (open source but no 3d) and i've read articles on how to tweak the driver to suspend ( ie i believe it's possible to make it work but actually want to spend some time writing code)
i know you can get rid of the logo but it reminds me i'm not booting the wrong kernel,
just imagine having a splash screen for every device in laptop what makes nvidia think they're so special.
also note that the latest windows driver from nvidia don't support laptops so the windows driver is an outdated version from dell. you can install an up to date windows nvidia driver using an inf file from
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/
but trying to program 3d graphics is made more difficult by it being closed hardware i'm just left guessing wether i'm putting load on the cpu or the gpu, you do stuff in openGL with no real idea whats done by hardware or software.
if the driver was open source then the installer would give me a working driver like it does for every other device in the machine.
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apt should probabally never even atempt to update a tainted kernel
so thats a bug in apt
the laptop suspends fine with the NV driver (open source but no 3d)
and i've read articles on how to tweak the driver to suspend ( ie i believe it's possible to make it
work but actually want to spend some time writing code)
i know you can get rid of the logo but it reminds me i'm not booting the wrong kernel,
just imagine having a splash screen for every device in laptop what makes nvidia think they're so special.
also note that the latest windows driver from nvidia don't support laptops so the windows driver
is an outdated version from dell. you can install an up to date windows nvidia driver using an
inf file from
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/
but trying to program 3d graphics is made more difficult by it being closed hardware
i'm just left guessing wether i'm putting load on the cpu or the gpu, you do stuff
in openGL with no real idea whats done by hardware or software.
if the driver was open source then the installer would give me a working driver like it does for
every other device in the machine.
proprietary means don't work properly with linux
my kernel is tainted so apt won't update it.
the laptop won't suspend so i have to boot up everytime i use it.
then there's that annoying logo.
I am an openGL programmer so i live with a barely working system
because i need the graphics
an open source driver would just work!
would anybody here buy a cpu if the instuction set was a trade secret.