RSSIrony, thy name is Nvidia
By Tim Conneally | Published April 24, 2009, 12:20 PM
The Fujitsu-Siemens Celsius H270 promises "No more compromises on graphics performance" (PDF available here) That is, unless you're running Linux.
This week, Nvidia and Fujitsu released an alert that some Linux graphics drivers for the Celsius' Nvidia Quadro FX 770M cause a corruption of the notebook's Extended display identification data (EDID). Basically, the EDID tells the graphics card important information about the computer's display, such as its size, pixel mapping data, filter type, and supported timings.
No more compromises, indeed.
"Using earlier NVIDIA Linux drivers on the Celsius H270 notebook will result in a corrupt EDID, which will persist across reboots," the warning said. "NVIDIA and Fujitsu recommend that all Linux Celsius H270 notebook users use NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers 180.51 or later, and that anyone repackaging a 180.xx NVIDIA Linux graphics driver upgrade to 180.51. This interaction problem is also resolved in the 185.19 beta release."
i really don't see the irony. If you had to use older drivers to avoid the problem and therein 'compromise' the functionality, maybe.
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|So, they noticed an issue, fixed it, alerted people....
...and this is a bad thing?
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|Its just more of the usual hysteria that poses as 'news'.
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|Well, with this I would think the 2 users of said platform have been duly notified.
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|Har, har......
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|Too busy voting to post your usual feckless nonsense?
Or is your mommy busy watching American Idol on your monitor?
LOL!
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|Well, they fixed it. Once a problem, now history. How fast did they fix it ? Fast enough ? This is the question I would ask.
@Foxy...
the 2 (
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|And maybe in time you will learn the difference between what you 'think' are literal responses (like the one you have trouble with above, as it was meant totally tongue in cheek - as hyperbole specifically to indicate that the entire issue is insignificant - as you 'tried to explain' after the fact as you so utterly missed the point...
You erudite scholar, you!
Go look up the meaning of a "litote"... Geesh, I love to listen to some dweeb who utterly missed the joke trying to explain its significance as he proceeds to (mis)interpret the response literally! LOL!
But then, you still think I respond here as a matter of some serious academic exercise, whereas in reality I post here simply as a break from more meaningful endeavors purely for the fun of it. And what you ignorantly think is so serious, is simply play.
Bottomline, you still have a lot to learn, as you still don't get it. And I quite enjoy 'playing the Dozens'... Its a game. One that you, and many other culturally deprived folks, simply don't get.
So have fun. The more you complain, the more fodder (and little more as you have demonstrated that you literally 'don't get it') you provide for me to taunt with more silly retorts that you will again misinterpret... LOL!
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|What is the big deal here?? Nvidia have been great when it comes to Linux support. They release new Linux drivers every two weeks, fixing issues as soon as they hear about them. This is no different.
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