On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 13:38 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > There has been a lot of discussion about how various KDE components > > utilize special graphics routines/modes available on certain video cards > > and that the drivers for certain cards have bugs in them that don't > > allow said KDE components to run properly. > > > > I am wondering if the release candidates shouldn't have the latest and > > greatest nvidia drivers installed on them so that a) the KDE components > > get tested as they were intended to run and b) the nvidia drivers get > > tested too. > > > > Please discuss. > > As I understand things, doing as you suggest would make it an > nvidia-only live image (ie, won't work for non-nvidia users). I'm > personally not all that interested in making such a beast, but I > wouldn't be against *someone else* working on it. I'm not sure if it would make it an nvidia only release or not. The set of packages on the image would have to include kmod-nvidia and its dependencies, but a) does the kernel load that if its not needed and b) would that preclude other video cards from operating properly ? The other thing is that what happens to the org.config file ? Does it need to be tailored to run to KDE's requirements ? There was a lot of user frustration that prior versions of KDE didn't work properly because of issues attributed to nvidia. I think its our responsibility to test/work this out in the release candidate and make sure that things do work properly now. Comments ?
