Silence is golden except on this list

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 11:08 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 19:37 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
>>>> I got a chuckle out of this interchange. It wouldn't be half as funny
>>>> if I hadn't gotten the same grumpy response on the Feisty Ubuntu
>>>> forum. Not being a Debian heavy, I asked a perfectly reasonable and
>>>> simple (IMO) question about the reasons for packages being held back
>>>> by apt-get, and I got basically the same response as you did, Ric. You
>>>> d*mb sh*t, why are you running Feisty if you don't know what you are
>>>> doing?
>>>>
>>>> I've always been amazed by those who know so damn much that they can't
>>>> relax and help those who haven't reached their own exalted state.
>>>
>>> Well, our beloved Lonnie gets panged on so much with seemingly idiotic
>>> questions for a living, it has to wear him out. Then you goto their site
>>> and it seems some MS weasel is running it with a bunch of ads that
>>> consume at least a third of the page, I'm sure Lonnie gets the
>>> deer-in-the-headlights syndrome from all the craziness around him. I
>>> don't see how he copes. Some jerk started a "nVidia SUCKS!" thread on
>>> the Fedora Users list and man, was it on!
>>
>> Yes, good times, them.  BTW, sorry for flaming you yesterday (Ric).  As
>> you noted, I see way too many people crying about how the nvidia driver
>> stole their wife, molested their pet llama, and took their job.
>
> I was just concerned that I had loaded up a bunch of rpms that robbed my
> nVidia card of it's superior hardwired features, like mesaGL already
> inside working with the GPU... heck I had no clue. So, I realized then
> that I had mistakenly loaded up on all the software when someone made
> mention that it defeated the purpose of the card. Which slowed it down
> measurably. But that game "glest" still stutters and stammers while
> other huge graphical games don't. Ric

Which other 'huge graphical games' don't?  You should prolly go to 
nvnews.net and post an nvidia-bug-report.log with details on the problem.

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