NVidia has a history of not playing nice with Linux. Allow me to point to a small comment Linus Torvalds made on Nvidia a while ago (NSFW): http://www.youtube.

NVidia has a history of not playing nice with Linux. Allow me to point to a small comment Linus Torvalds made on Nvidia a while ago (NSFW): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw&t=1m41s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw&t=1m41s