Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2007 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > > > Nvidia is not the end, it's the means.  The end is having
> > > > > a reliable SuSE desktop.
> > > > If you have problems with NVIDIA propietary drivers, please complain to
> > > > NVIDIA, we cannot fix them, Im sorry.
> > > Hi Christian,
> > >
> > > Please understand, I'm not picking on SuSE here.  I'm not
> > > giving up, but just waiting for 11.2.
> > >
> > > But look at it from my perspective:  11.0 works, 11.1 doesn't.
> > > I don't care if it's Novell or Nvidia: it doesn't work.  So
> > > I'm going to take the path of least resistance and retreat
> > > to what's working.  This will also giv KDE 4 some time to
> > > mature.
> > I'm not convinced that all of your problems are nVidia, as there are the
> > same problems I see with different make video chipsets, thus not all is
> > well with "X"....GL screen savers come to mind.
>
>
> I found that when I bumped my nVidia binary drivers up to 180.x things
> improved in a BIG way with KDE4.. that and making sure I was using
> 4.2.2. (latest as of this email).  GL screen savers are fine... full
> screen, not stuck up in the top left corner.... KDE desktop
> performance is fine... ie, I don't notice any slowdowns or performance
> issues at all anymore.
>
> I pull my nVivia drivers from here:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606 and am
> currently using 180.44.  I don't know what's available in the openSUSE
> repos, but if you have a nVidia card, and you're not on at least 180,
> you will have major issues with KDE4.

Well, I compiled the "latest and greatest" and the results are the same. :(

Fred

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