nVidia 'binary blob' drivers

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On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Clive Messer wrote:
> On Friday 03 Apr 2009 16:59:40 Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Clive Messer wrote:
>> > The recently released "stable" nVidia 180.44 driver contains a fix for
>> > OpenGL crashing when running plasma. Obviously relevant to this list.
>> > rpmfusion latest f10 package was for 180.29. (I think 180.37 was only
>> > packaged for dev.) Anyway, it might be worth asking if they can upgrade
>> > the f10 build.
>>
>> Did they finally fix the window resizing bug or is it still sloppy?
>
> Orcan,
>
> I'm not 100% sure what you mean, but I'll assume that you are talking about
> the fact that resizing windows on hardware >= 8 series (unified shader
> architecture) is slower/choppy than on earlier 6/7 series hardware? In that
> case, no, it is not any more accelerated than it was before. It'd be nice if
> they could accelerate this some more along with the outstanding issues with AA
> fonts. I'll settle for what appears to be the most stable driver for a while,
> even if it does not add any acceleration. ;-)
>
> Regards
>
> Clive
> --

Yes, that's what I meant. It is by far the most obvious, most annoying
long standing bug and the nvidia developers refuse to fix it. They
probably have more important things to do, like OpenGL3 or vdpau. The
whole Linux world is desperately waiting for those things.

Cheers,
Orcan



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