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We dislike the fact that <a href="http://www.nvidia.com" target="_top">nVidia</a>
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only provides binary drivers (for use with XFree86), which are often buggy.
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We have had many reports on
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<a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/" target="_top">mplayer-users</a>
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about problems related to these closed-source drivers
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and their poor quality, instability and poor user and expert support.
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Many of these problems/issues keep appearing repeatedly.
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We have been contacted by nVidia lately, and they said these bugs do not
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exist, instability is caused by bad AGP chips, and they received no reports
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of driver bugs (like the purple line). So if you have a problem with your
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nVidia card, you are advised to update the nVidia driver and/or buy a new
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motherboard or ask nVidia to supply open-source drivers. In any case, if
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you are using the nVidia binary drivers and facing driver related problems,
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please be aware that you will receive very little help from our side
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because we have little power to help in this matter.
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