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On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> Guys,
> 
> In short: Don't bash Nvidia. What they do is not uncommon. Well,
> maybe in Open Source environments. So please end this thread,
> unless people get constructive.

I think its already ended..

basically:
We should alwasy be able to use (on i386) the sam amethods outlined for
solaris. 
Not quite as quick as those for Linux but more general.