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


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