nVidia 'binary blob' drivers

Eli Wapniarski eli at orbsky.homelinux.org
Sat Apr 4 04:46:36 UTC 2009


On Friday 03 April 2009 23:27:42 Clive Messer wrote:
> On Friday 03 Apr 2009 20:54:25 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> 
> > Under 180.44 there is some kind of rendering issue that has nothing to do
> > with S3TC. It looks like something wrong with OpenGL under some conditions.
> > Which means that if you are using compiz or desktop effects, you could run
> > into some trouble under some circumstances despite what NVidia reports as
> > things being fixed for KDE. While something might be fixed. It certainly
> > has broken something else. And plasma seems to work just fine under 180.29.
> > At least for me. At least for now.
> 
> OK, Eli. Understood. I was just reporting my experience. You obviously have 
> another opinion/experience. I'll only add that in the 48 hours of running the 
> 180.44 driver on my primary machine, I haven't seen a plasma crash dialog. 
> Previously, I could create at will with an instance of FaH (CUDA via wine) 
> running, and launching a native OpenGL app, with KDE DE enabled. 
> 
> Anyway, my last words on this subject. I no longer wish to discuss anything to 
> do with the nVidia binary driver and regret having posted to this list. There 
> is one email in particular that I won't be responding to, other than to say 
> this. I would suggest that people responding to a message on a mailing list 
> have the decency to CC the list as well as reply to personally. Let me quite 
> clearly state, I am not an nVidia fanboy or apologist and quite frankly I 
> don't give two hoots where nVidia (the company) choose to deploy their 
> obviously limited development resources. If the driver works for me - fine, 
> I'll use it. If it doesn't, I don't have to, there are other options. Whilst I 
> understand that the fact the nVidia binary blob as non-free software evokes 
> strong opinions, some people really do need to grow up! If I want to engage in 
> politics, I'll stand for office. 
> 

Hear hear

Eli

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