Re: Driver for 9600GT

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 14:24 -0600, Steve Browne wrote:
> There is no landline broadband in my area of Santa Fe County (east of 
> Tesuque Village), so I use a Wildblue satellite link which imposes 
> monthly usage quotas. The speed is good but this precludes me from 
> downloading entire Linux distros - particularly Debian Etch with 3
> DVDs 
> full of goodies. Instead I order distros from Frozentech 
> (www.frozentech.com, named after Tux, I guess) with $1.99 First Class 
> Mail shipping, which is the way to go.

Yeah, I always remember how hard it was to do any Debian besides pure
stable (I've been a testing/unstable guy ever since my first comcast
account.) on dial-up.

> Ah, Big Buck Bunny. Thanks, but I've seen some clips, which is enough 
> for me for now. At least it is coherent, unlike Elephants Dream. I'm 
> most looking forward to Plumiferos, an animated feature from
> Argentina 
> (http://www.plumiferos.com/index-en.php). They don't have to worry so 
> much about Hollywood conventions.

Sure, the Bunny DVD has lots of stuff of course, even tutorials that
make it look almost fun enough to get me to actually install Blender :)

> I though last year's top animated feature was Surf's Up, although
> Oscar 
> disagreed (politics!). Sony Pictures Imageworks won't say
> specifically 
> what software they use,
> but their animator job recruitment blurbs require knowledge of Linux.

I missed that one, but I'm a big fan of Madagascar, which was all
modeled on Gnome desktops (on something other than GNU/linux underneath
Solaris maybe?) and rendered on a GNU/linux render farm of course.
I have a nice poster of the penguins from Madagascar with the caption,
"Time to Migrate!" that I bought at Target or somewhere.

> BTW, I don't know about the 9600GT, but the 8800GT (around $150 now)
> can 
> be turned into a Quadro FX4600 ($1250 and up) with a bios trick and 
> substituting Quadro drivers. Much faster rendering, same GPU; price 
> difference is marketing BS.

Typical I suppose. Someday the free drivers will work well and that kind
of monkey business may be more apparent.

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