F17-alpha: UI unusable

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 00:17 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 06:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 23:18 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >   
> >> Adam Williamson wrote:
> >>     
> >>> It's a fairly well-known issue that you can't build the NVIDIA driver
> >>> against a debug kernel without tweaking something somewhere. It works
> >>> fine if you use a non-debug kernel.
> >>>       
> >> Not really: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751891
> >> Anything dlopening libGL directly or indirectly can still cause glibc 
> >> errors. Neither glibc's nor nvidia's fix solved that issue for everyone. We 
> >> still get duplicates of this bug reported regularly.
> >>     
> > Oh, yeah, that one. I *think* the issue the OP was referring to was the
> > well-known one with getting it to even build against a debug kernel,
> > though. It complains about the license on some symbols or other.
> >   
> 
> And for anyone interested in the history of 3D graphics hardware here's
> an article with a lot of good hardware photos and info:
> 
>     http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/graphics_extravaganza_ultimate_gpu_retrospective/
> 
> It's a couple years old but still good.

Hey, that's pretty good. Don't see any big mistakes, and they even got
the i740 in there. Solid 8 or 9 out of 10 I'd say.

I've owned far too many of those...
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