Sorry, I give up to preach *ubuntu

[Jussi Kekkonen]

sorry for replying in this ugly way but... can you point out how
nvidia is not working well with kde4/qt4 ? It works perfectly here by
any meters except minor bitmap buffer issue

On 11/12/08, Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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Jussi Kekkonen