Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (237 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Torsdag 12 februar 2009 00:28:49 skrev ianseeks:
> 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.

I too have FX5500 and 173.14.15 and I don't find it very bad - apart from the 
horrible OOo problem with plasma that Rajko mentions. Though my Intel gfx on 
the lappy performs better with KDE4, which it probably shouldn't ;-)

Nvidia have put our cards into legacy mode, so while there appears to be some 
bugfixing going on, Nvidia seem to want you to buy a newer card to have a 
really updated driver which supports KDE4 properly. 

You don't mention which version of KDE4 you're running, but if you happen to 
be running >= 4.2.0 you may find this tip very useful:
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/01/todays-tip-kdeskipargbvisuals.html

PS: Personally I'm considering buying a used ATi Radeon 9800 or x800 as those 
are said to perform well with the free radeon driver, and I only have AGP, no 
PCI-Express, so options are limited. I don't have perfect data yet about 
whether the radeon driver causes any notable problems for KDE4.
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