<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Friday 03 April 2009 23:27:42 Clive Messer wrote:<br>
> On Friday 03 Apr 2009 20:54:25 Eli Wapniarski wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Under 180.44 there is some kind of rendering issue that has nothing to do<br>
> > with S3TC. It looks like something wrong with OpenGL under some conditions.<br>
> > Which means that if you are using compiz or desktop effects, you could run<br>
> > into some trouble under some circumstances despite what NVidia reports as<br>
> > things being fixed for KDE. While something might be fixed. It certainly<br>
> > has broken something else. And plasma seems to work just fine under 180.29.<br>
> > At least for me. At least for now.<br>
> <br>
> OK, Eli. Understood. I was just reporting my experience. You obviously have <br>
> another opinion/experience. I'll only add that in the 48 hours of running the <br>
> 180.44 driver on my primary machine, I haven't seen a plasma crash dialog. <br>
> Previously, I could create at will with an instance of FaH (CUDA via wine) <br>
> running, and launching a native OpenGL app, with KDE DE enabled. <br>
> <br>
> Anyway, my last words on this subject. I no longer wish to discuss anything to <br>
> do with the nVidia binary driver and regret having posted to this list. There <br>
> is one email in particular that I won't be responding to, other than to say <br>
> this. I would suggest that people responding to a message on a mailing list <br>
> have the decency to CC the list as well as reply to personally. Let me quite <br>
> clearly state, I am not an nVidia fanboy or apologist and quite frankly I <br>
> don't give two hoots where nVidia (the company) choose to deploy their <br>
> obviously limited development resources. If the driver works for me - fine, <br>
> I'll use it. If it doesn't, I don't have to, there are other options. Whilst I <br>
> understand that the fact the nVidia binary blob as non-free software evokes <br>
> strong opinions, some people really do need to grow up! If I want to engage in <br>
> politics, I'll stand for office. <br>
> <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Hear hear<br>
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