A-Z Linux Guide

I have a little esoteric set of screen attached to my Linux Workstation. That’s three 20″ LCD screen which are all pivoted (rotated 90 degrees incase you’re not familiar with this word). Now I need to use the nvidia binary only kernel package with this computer, because nothing else would work. I know, since I’ve tried Matrox cards, and they didn’t cut it, and you can’t use two ATI cards in the same linux machine with either the xorg ati driver or the binary only fglrx driver. There didn’t seem to be any problem with the nvidia driver at all for the longest time. Then one day when I came home, the machine had halted, I rebooted, an thought it’s probably nothing, but this started to happen more frequently, and now we are at the point where it will stay up for a few hours and then livelock the computer. The xorg nv driver doesn’t work for all the screens in the setup, but it doesn’t crash or anything, so I tend to think this is a driver releated bug. And the thing is, I’m giving up this computer as a windows workstation in the very near future, so I don’t want to waste time trying to fix things.

Having a fresh Ubuntu Edgy Eft installation on a moderately or very powerfull PC makes up for a pretty complete and comprehensive machine. The problems begin when you have some other rather unusual setup to run, like for example my 3 monitor system. I really hope the driver doesn’t regress when I start using it in the near future, once the good people at verkkokauppa.com deliver my machine and parts.

Ok, these are the moments for which I have a tv. The classic movie Sneakers just came on mtv3. I missed the first 45 minutes of the film, because I wasn’t aware that it was airing.

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Your title is awful sensational. Yet, the actual post does nothing to say that Linux isn’t ready for the desktop. Just because you’ve had trouble with a high-end setup doesn’t make Linux not ready for the masses, 99% of which have only one monitor.