New Nvidia driver with 4k stack support is out

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Fri Jul 2 14:40:21 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:24:35AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 02 July 2004 09:36, Douglas Furlong wrote:
> >On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:13, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> >> >On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 11:04, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> >> On Thursday 01 July 2004 01:57, Mark Bradbury wrote:
> >> >> >Get it while its hot
> >> >> >
> >> >> >ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6106/README.tx
> >> >> >t
> >> >> > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6106/NVIDIA-
> >> >> >Linu x-x 86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run
> >> >>
> >> >> Unforch, the second line above is an unlistable virtual
> >> >> directory no matter how I approach it with mozilla.  Can
> >> >> someone post the real linkage please.
> >> >
> >> >Try:
> >> >
> >> >http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6106/NVIDIA-Linu
> >> >x-x 86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run
> >> >
> >> >This is all one line, in case your mail reader broke it up.  You
> >> > can also navigate to the file thru www.nvidia.com -> drivers,
> >> > etc.
> >>
> >> This last worked, but they sure had it buried, you can sure tell
> >> that linux isn't even on their radar. :(
> >
> >Does this statement not seem a tad silly to you considering they
> > have just released a new driver for linux that works with the 4k
> > stack size?
> >
> >If Linux wasn't on the radar, we wouldn't of even been having this
> >discussion, and you couldn't have made that silly comment :p
> 
> What I meant was that the download.nvidia.com is a virtual directory 
> that cannot be listed.  Going to www.nvidia.com, you have to do quite 
> a bit of "door opening" before you find anything that actually leads 
> to being able to get the file.   It is definitely NOT being 
> advertised as being available for us alternative os users, on the 
> front page in particular there is total silence.
> 
> So no, I do not call my comment silly when you have to be 2 levels 
> deep in some submenu to find a link that even hints of being able to  
> download anything.  I thought it was quite appropo.

Main page:
   Download Drivers:
      Linux & FreeBSD

It's quite visible.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha





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