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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE4 and the nvidia driver
From:       Erik de Groot <edg72 () home ! nl>
Date:       2008-07-13 19:00:17
Message-ID: 200807132100.17677.edg72 () home ! nl
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Hi,

For the moment I have to use the 169.12 driver because any 17x.xx driver 
instantaneously crashes my x-server (1.4x) on start-up and I haven't figured 
out why.
Anyway I saw a noticeable improvement in desktop responsiveness (re-sizing 
windows, minimizing and restoring windows etc.) when applying 
InitialPixmapPlacement=2 and setting the Open GL mode to "shared memory" . 
Apparently the 169.xx series do not know the GlyphCache option, so I couldn't 
try that one. My card uses a GeForce 8500 GT b.t.w.

Once I have figured out how to use the 17x series drivers on my system I will 
try the GlyphCache option as well.

Indeed it is a very good idea to put experiences of people on a wiki because 
we cannot expect people to crawl through mailing lists to get the best nvidia 
driver settings once KDE 4.1 is out in the field. When they have no access to 
information on this in a reasonably comfortable way, they will definitively 
blame KDE for this problem.

Best Regards,
Erik

On Sunday 13 July 2008 15:45:08 Michael Leupold wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 13. Juli 2008 schrieb Grzegorz Kamola:
> > I just want to warn others with card from series 7. I fallowed the
> > same steps as for cards from series 8 and I experienced serious
> > problems with high temperature. Responsiveness improved with latest
> > (not stable) drivers but I wouldn't say it is worth taking risk like
> > that.
>
> That's pretty unfortunate. I just rechecked and my GPU stays at around the
> same temperature. However I put your remark on the page. Thanks!
>
> On a sidenote I just tried the parameters with the latest stable driver and
> it works as well (173.14.09).
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
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