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

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 16 January 2009 14:29:52 Linuxguy123 wrote:
> 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 !
>
The changeover is under way.  However, please not the comment that neither 
NVidia nor ATi currently use this setting.

If you want to use bleeding edge stuff it's inevitable that you will sometimes 
come up against something that wasn't previously known.  This is such a case.  
NVidia have acknowledged that KDE4 is using parts of the driver that were 
previously untested.  This is no-one's 'fault' - it's the price of progress.

Users that are not prepared to do a little hacking should be using a distro 
that is less than bleeding edge.  With more staid distros they won't have to 
hack at all.  As long as you have this choice, there is something for 
everyone.

Anne
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