On Friday 03 April 2009 23:27:42 Clive Messer wrote: > 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. > Hear hear Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090404/a6cbbd00/attachment.html