Re: how come Sys -> Adm -> Display can't see the full resolution?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Monday 14 July 2008 05:48:37 Dave Burns wrote:
> Turns out it was due to the nvidia
> card on the laptop I was tweaking. Fedora ships with a barely usable
> nvidia driver, it somehow conflicts with the display panel. If you go
> to nvidia's web site you can download some evil proprietary code that
> works, but requires that you use something other than the usual
> display panel to do resolution changes.

Just a caveat.  It seems that there is a problem with the proprietary NVidia 
driver and KDE4, affected some specific cards.  It results in a great 
slowdown.  There is a known workaround, but that improves the situation for 
some cards and makes it worse for others.

AIUI, it is a bug in the NVidia driver, which supposedly supports some calls 
(?), but since few applications to date have used those routines they are not 
very well tested.  NVidia are aware of it, but no date has been proposed for 
a fix.

(This is a non-tech user giving a simplified explanation :-) )

Anne

-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux