Silence is golden except on this list

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 17:06 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

Doom, Doom II, Quake, America's Army. I've reported it to the original
developers. "Glest" is now in Fedora Extras and I'm waiting to see if
someone else reports the same problem. Thanx! Ric