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[ianseeks <ianseeks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 12 February 2009 01:56:11 Rajko M. wrote:
> 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

I have found the source to most of my pain.  The "compositing type "was set to 
"Xrender" instead of "opengl" - i only found it by accident and now it seems 
to work a hell of a lot faster. 
Thanks for all the responses.....



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