They make cards w/ 4x DisplayPort connectors, but apparently multiple monitors isn't part of their quality assurance process? That seems a mite silly to me.
Wasn't too terribly impressed with the team (and a couple of them were definitely giving off that "I hate my job/life" vibe, one disgruntled fellow was even trying to drop little thinly-veiled "run away!" hints at me). I figure either the cream of the crop at Nvidia doesn't work in QA, or they don't get proper support from upper management.
P.S. Didn't get an offer anyway, probably for the best - I was desperate for work at the time and would have taken it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrvahez1H8&feature=youtu.be
The main reason I'm not buying another card from them is their stance towards Linux in general and their stance towards PCI virtualization in particular.
I'm currently not upgrading drivers due to the latter; they're trying to disable the capabilities (dedicating a card to a VM) that are the reason I bought a second card in the first place.
I can usually deal with either lazy or greedy, but both in conjunction is infuriating. Screw those guys.
If you're talking about virtual GPUs, where one card is split across multiple VMs, however, unfortunately that's Tesla only. That said, I worked (as the maintainer of KVM) with the nVidia driver people working on vGPU, and I was very impressed. They were very knowledgeable and professional, and they managed to contribute a generic Linux framework for virtualizing PCI devices rather than a one-off hack specific to nVidia. Intel is using the same framework now, in fact.
Personally, not talking about virtual GPUs. (I mean, that's cool stuff, but that's not my use case.) I'm glad you found the driver engineers to be solid. I doubt, however, the engineers are driving the decisions on what passthrough functionality Nvidia feels like allowing consumers to have this week.
Or driving decisions like this: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/579449/linux/basemo...
I personally consider removing functionality after I purchase something to be a form of fraud. And Nvidia doesn't seem very shy about doing it. Thus, I don't trust them, and don't do business with untrustworthy vendors.
Yes.
-- Ferruccio Lamborghini.
-- Enzo Ferrari
[Closed. Will not fix.]
Sure, you can either return the items, or report the bug, or hope that you've managed to find a workaround.
There's no need to discourage people who want to spend their own time on getting the bug fixed so that others benefit. Not everybody thinks the same way you do.
We have such double standard.
If you buy a washing machine and it doesn't work, the brand sucks.
If you buy a graphic card that makes you OS crash, it's just nvidia needs a little help. Replace nvidia with any gadget or software.
Windows uses to crash all the time, and people found that normal. The same problem with a microwave would have issued a massive recall but microsoft got away with it.
Well, no sorry. You just sold me a non working product, wasting my money, my time, and preventing me from doing the task I was going to do with my computer.
I'm a dev, I understand perfectly WHY it happens. Complexity VS expectations VS cost. I get it. But the consumer is cheated here.
I guess it depends on how obscure/serious the bug is, but the reason we can't have everything working always is because people want to be able to put whatever random hardware and software of their choice together and have it all work. It's not that simple.
There's a lot of stuff that has to go right for things to not have problems. PCs have become insanely complicated and there's almost unlimited chances for a particular combination of hardware/software to have bugs out there.
If you paid (a lot) more for a certified system, then maybe you could expect it to work flawlessly. Are there vendors that do that? I guess it would have to be for only a particular software setup as well.
It's the vendors that want to be everywhere to make more money. But they can't provide the quality with the increasing complexity.
That's why Apple's setups are often considered good quality. They solved the problem by limiting the hardware and software combinations.
I dislike Apple but I can at least see that their strategy worked.
The problem I got with this is that proprietary software has the same order of magnitude of problems that free software has. But I paid for the first one, and people writing it are paid.
I can accept bugs in FOSS because of it's very nature. But if you can't give me a guaranty that my product will work, what did I pay for ?
You can try to remove all the NV kernelmode driver files manually, at which point it should just fallback on the default VGA driver. Then you can use the DDU[1] tool to cleanup any remaining files, and do a clean install with a driver from nvidia.com.
Do you perhaps remember what the bugcheck code was, and which driver was listed as the offender? If you have a kernel minidump still available, that'd be helpful as well.
[1]: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstall...
Link to DDU: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstall...