Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (237 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 05:28:49 pm ianseeks wrote:
> HI
>
> I've got this board running a driver version 173.14.15 (not available on
> the nvidia site - latest there is 173.14.12).  This driver is completely
> pants for KDE4, it is slow as molasses going uphill in the snow and
> artifacts all over the place (its finewith KDE3.5) - does anyone know if
> this will ever be upgraded to work with KDE4? I've tried all the other beta
> versions 177.x, 180.x and they all exit the install script saying that this
> card is not known about and wont be installed.
>
> Do ihave to upgrade my card to work with KDE4?  If so, any recommendations?
> I'm not a gamer so i don't need any monster card. It can be ATI or NVidia
> but it needs to to have some life in it and not be deprecated as my current
> one seems to be.
>
> thanks
>
>
> Ian

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.16/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.16-pkg0

I use this, and some of the most annoying stuff is solved, the most prominent 
is garbled screen with OpenOffice window active. 
 
Speed is better then before, but it is not a miracle. 
Well, not with 22" wide screen and some 1500 MHz Athlon XP. 

Apropos upgrade, here is the comparative list of 8 series:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce8.html

All GeForce:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_family.html

I would look those with higher memory bandwidth that still fit in the budget. 
Lower in the list are modls that can be worse than FX5500, so watch carefully.  

-- 
Regards, Rajko
-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx