[sclug] An introduction and some questions

[Alan Hawes]

Hi all

Firstly, I feel an introduction is in order.

I'm Alan. I'm a Windsor Linux user & have been using Linux for the past 3-4 
years. I've tried various distributions but am currently using Mandriva.

I'd like to pick your collective brains if that is ok.

I've recently installed the proprietary ATI drivers for XORG 6.8 and have 
found them less than stable ( I'll be surprised if I manage to complete this 
email!!). I installed them simply to play Unreal 2004 which works fine but,
apart from the lack of installation instructions that come with them, my 
system appears to hang completely. I cannot kill X or jump into a virtual 
terminal I just have to reset the machine.

My question is, has anyone had good results from using NVIDIA and their 
proprietary drivers? I've sort of had enough of ATI now as I have had driver 
issues on Windows and did tried to install the Linux specific ones before but 
had to return to the XFree ones after several crashes. I would use the XORG 
drivers but the hardware acceleration isn't quite there yet.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Alan