[clue] impressions on mint12?

[Mike Bean]

I'm working on installing 12 on my main computer.  So far I see no reason
to believe the proprietary nvidia driver isn't just plain junk.  System
seems to just plain MUCH happier on FOSS drivers.

Bean

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:05 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>wrote:

> Mike Bean wrote:
> > I have seen a little quirkyness lately.  The nvidia driver hasn't been
> > getting along with X - I've been getting application hangs and the like.
>
> My older nvidia cards are unhappy with Debian lately.  I guess they've
> dropped the nv driver for the
> fully open one that isn't ready yet (nouveau, maybe?).  So updates to Xorg
> take fiddling to keep the
> nv driver installed (I've gotten the source and built it with the current
> kernel but I'm leery of
> building it against 3.x).
>
> Dave
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