On Friday 03 Apr 2009 20:54:25 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > Under 180.44 there is some kind of rendering issue that has nothing to do > with S3TC. It looks like something wrong with OpenGL under some conditions. > Which means that if you are using compiz or desktop effects, you could run > into some trouble under some circumstances despite what NVidia reports as > things being fixed for KDE. While something might be fixed. It certainly > has broken something else. And plasma seems to work just fine under 180.29. > At least for me. At least for now. OK, Eli. Understood. I was just reporting my experience. You obviously have another opinion/experience. I'll only add that in the 48 hours of running the 180.44 driver on my primary machine, I haven't seen a plasma crash dialog. Previously, I could create at will with an instance of FaH (CUDA via wine) running, and launching a native OpenGL app, with KDE DE enabled. Anyway, my last words on this subject. I no longer wish to discuss anything to do with the nVidia binary driver and regret having posted to this list. There is one email in particular that I won't be responding to, other than to say this. I would suggest that people responding to a message on a mailing list have the decency to CC the list as well as reply to personally. Let me quite clearly state, I am not an nVidia fanboy or apologist and quite frankly I don't give two hoots where nVidia (the company) choose to deploy their obviously limited development resources. If the driver works for me - fine, I'll use it. If it doesn't, I don't have to, there are other options. Whilst I understand that the fact the nVidia binary blob as non-free software evokes strong opinions, some people really do need to grow up! If I want to engage in politics, I'll stand for office. Regards Clive -- Clive Messer <clive at vacuumtube.org.uk>
