[Bug 15398] GTK 2.8 rendering glitches with nvidia and RenderAccel=true

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------- Additional Comments From fabbione at ubuntu.com  2005-09-15 09:27 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> Let me say that I expected this kind of reaction.
> 
> Of course you don't have sources to nvidia driver. That doesn't change the fact
> that decision of using first release of GTK on Cairo makes Breezy mostly
> unusable on nvidia cards. The logical
> choice would be not rushing to use GTK 2.8 because of possible unexpected issues
> like this (what, it was released when - few weeks ago? How about testing it for
> two-three months before?) and all this with no 
> actual improvements to end users at the time being. GTK on Cairo currently
> brings slowdowns for users, nothing beyond that.
> 
> Well, you prefer to rush radically new version of major platform toolkit in the
> stable distribution the consequences be damned. It is your decision as the
> maintainers, 
> my decision will be to skip Ubuntu from now on. This is the kind of regression I
> would expect from Debian/Sid, but never from stable release.

Breezy is not stable and i am not sure how could you get this impression. Also
I can't reproduce the problem here using nvidia drivers, so it must be a
combinantion
of your hw with the nvidia driver itself. Again i have no way to fix it.

Fabio

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