Sorry, I give up to preach *ubuntu

[Willy Hamra]

On 12/11/2008, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 19:32 +0200, Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> > 2008/11/7 p.daniels <carl1086 at morris.umn.edu>:
> > > On Friday November 7 2008 12:52:53 am Ali Milis wrote:
> > >> $ export GIVEUP
> > >>
> > >> Well... GeForce 7100 GS users have been stranded away
> > >> for too long. How on earth, can I  recommend/preach a product
> > >> that sometimes work and often don't?!
> > >>
> > >> I myself have no problem, since I can google most of my own
> > >> problems. But unfortunately, this is not a product for beginners
> > >> and laypeople
> > >>
> > >
> > > You know, I said the same thing about two years ago. So I did it. I gave up on
> > > Nvidia, I sent them a letter telling them why, and I'm a happier person today.
> > >
> > > best wishes-
> > > pete
> > >
> >
> > i'm a tolerant person. i'm giving them till february to release some
> > KDE4-compatible driver, if they don't, won't do it, i'm off to ATI, and
> > i'll of course, let them know why as well. every company that
> > disrespects it's clients, force them to use certain software, OS, or
> > other crapware deserves to be abandoned!
>
> I see plenty of problems reported with ATI as well, in gaming and doing
> 3D graphic design, in the user-group maillists. The nVidia users, like
> myself, have no problems. I'm not sure what the beef is, but I do run an
> older nVidia card, a 5700 with 1/2 meg of vram. I use the nVidia driver
> installer using EnvyNG which works like a charm. When I used Fedora, I
> just installed the nVidia supplied driver package manually. Using the
> third party packagers I had problems. Major problems doing really tight
> 3D virtual environments. NVidia has been good for me, so I don't know
> what problems the OP had. Ric
>

the problem is not with the installation. the proprietary nVidia
drivers provided in the repos install perfectly. but the problem is
with the lack of support for QT4 and KDE4 in general by these drivers.
are you using the proprietary drivers, Ric? are using them with KDE4?
if not, then you don't know about the problems i mentioned and suffer
from. but if yes, then tell me, how is the general look and feel of
KDE4? how many rendering glitches do you see per minute? quite a lot!
turn desktop effects on, and these bugs more than quadriple. nVidia is
aware of this, and that's why they provided the 177 beta driver
series. for KDE3, the 173 drivers are still useful, and envy
recommends them. but for KDE4, 173 are very very buggy, the 177 are a
bit better, but still, nVidia is not doing it's job well with
providing the necessary functionality.

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.