[MPlayer-users] Mplayer doesn't compile

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:18:06AM +0200, Tor Olav Stava wrote:
> >Slightly off the subject, but I find that NVidia's drivers get a bad
> >wrap, as they end-up being the canary in the coal mine.  If your
> >hardware is buggy, a failing video driver is usually the first visible
> >clue... If your Linux system/kernel is poorly configured, the video
> >driver may be the first program you install which exhibits problems.
> >etc.
> > 
> >
> Well, I've heard a lot of negative talk about NVidia drivers, but 
> they've worked very well for me, except for compiling MPlayer. Trouble 
> is to get any support anywhere in the Linux community when the kernel is 
> marked tainted by NVidia. Don't really like their closed-source 
> mentality, but what can we do? I'm in no way capable of writing an 
> open-source driver for these cards, so just have to live with it, for 
> now.. Enough off topic, I think. Will jump to another mailing list. ;)

The free nv driver works perfectly well, as does the fb driver for
nvidia cards, doesn't it? Anyway next time you buy hardware, buy
something without this stupid nvidia mentality..

Rich