On Wednesday 01 April 2009 14:49:15 Rex Dieter wrote: > Clemens Eisserer wrote: > > I also don't think its a graphic driver issue - usually many > > self-made-professionals point to that, without any real indication. > > If you use nv and the problem persists, it has nothing to do with the > > proprietary nvidia driver, period. > > There's well-founded experience behind our seemingly crazy requests to > reproduce bugs free of nvidia's taint (all files, libs, even nv's own > libGL, etc...). I once found it hard to believe too, until I witnessed it > (pauses/freezes in particular). NVidia's drivers are freaky beasts, and > has caused countless episodes of wasted debugging. More than a few times, > folk *swore* to me that their systems were nvidia-driver free... and guess > what, they weren't, and when purged completely, wierdness disappeared. > > I (we) really need to document this all on the wiki somewhere, so I don't > need to re-write this rant every few weeks. > Why not write up a section on http://userbase.kde.org/Troubleshooting? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090401/075b5343/attachment.bin
