Comments on: Taming the Edgy Eft http://zhadum.org.uk/2007/03/04/taming-the-edgy-eft/ Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:34:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: iain http://zhadum.org.uk/2007/03/04/taming-the-edgy-eft/comment-page-1/#comment-300 iain Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:17:05 +0000 http://zhadum.org.uk/2007/03/04/taming-the-edgy-eft/#comment-300 Katie and MArcus's machines wouldn't work at all without a prodigious amount of swearing and hacking. If you tried to do anything on the framebuffer with the wrong settings the ATi would throw a hissy fit and refuse to show anything useful on the screen until you rebooted. Eventually I found the correct X options and the proprietary drivers worked. nVidia for the win! Katie and MArcus’s machines wouldn’t work at all without a prodigious amount of swearing and hacking. If you tried to do anything on the framebuffer with the wrong settings the ATi would throw a hissy fit and refuse to show anything useful on the screen until you rebooted.

Eventually I found the correct X options and the proprietary drivers worked.

nVidia for the win!

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