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
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Clive Messer <clive(a)vacuumtube.org.uk>