Could/should the new nvidia driver be added to the release candidate live release ?

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 14:29:52 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 11:15 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 16 January 2009 09:58:16 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Eelko Berkenpies wrote:
> > > And the same for ATI (I have a 9200SE as an alternative at
> > > work), they haven't been updating their legacy drivers since 2006.
> >
> > Just use the Free (as in speech) drivers for that one, they work perfectly
> > with my 9200SE.
> >
> 
> And if you still have problems, try the fix at http://userbase.kde.org/GPU-
> Performance#Desktop_Effects_causes_random_freezes
> 
> A number of people have found that it fixes their problems.

More hacking around.  Linux is supposed to be a mainstream, user ready
product.   How do we justify asking people to know things about their
video cards to get it to work properly. 

I still say that even if the nVidia cards had issues the KDE community
could have developed an app to help people tune their cards.  Its 2009
people.  Users shouldn't have to go hand editing xorg.conf files !




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