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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE4 and the nvidia driver
From:       Pierre <pinaraf () pinaraf ! info>
Date:       2008-07-13 20:56:51
Message-ID: 200807132256.52480.pinaraf () pinaraf ! info
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On Sunday 13 July 2008 21:00:17 Erik de Groot wrote:
> 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.
I suggest we should do even more : put at least a link to this information in 
the KDE 4.1 release note, and clearly explain that the nvidia driver has 
problems, and that it's not KDE's fault (that's what some people said on 
nvnews forum...)

 
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