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To: dybdahl who wrote (63038)	11/14/2001 5:38:27 PM
From: Plaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

No. Linux doesn't crash if the graphics driver is unstable and survives many other kinds of drivers, especially newer USB drivers So what's the difference between not crashing and especially not crashing? So there are types of drivers that it won't survive? All I know is that about 2 years ago I was trying to run Linux with a "supported" video card (an S3-virge based card, I think, but it's been so long now it's hard to remember exactly). The system would lock up all the time. I rarely could get it to stay up for more than an hour. Switched to a different video card and all was fine; everything was stable after that. And yes the hardware was fine (the same hardware had previously been running win98 with no problems). So my direct experience is that bad drivers in Linux can also lead to system instability. Plaz