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On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 02:11, Emiel Kollof wrote: |
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> On Friday 28 February 2003 10:54, Codewordt Gentoo Users wrote: |
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> > Hello |
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> > With recent new releases (XFree 4.3.0, Gentoo RC3, gentoo-sources-2.4.20) |
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> > I was wondering if I could make a plea that the new Nvidia drivers |
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> > 1.0.4191 be unmasked? They are already being widely utilised by the rest |
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> > of the distributions and certainly I've not had any problems with it |
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> > myself. Problems may occur when upgrading or downgrading but on a fresh |
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> > install in my experience it is more robust. |
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> I disagree. 3d performance is better but 2d performance is abysmal, also due |
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Agreed. 2D performance has some major problems in the 1.0-4191 version. |
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Apparently they rewrote much of the 2D code, partly to do better with |
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XRENDER. IMO they are still beta, and have significant memory leak(s). |
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I'm speaking from the point of view of someone who has avidly installed |
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every version since about 0.9.4. But with just this release I have been |
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forced to go back to 1.0-3123. Yes i've tried to endure the bad side of |
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1.0-4191 several times but i've always had to go back. |
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> to the new drivers not using xaa anymore (they use their own stuff in the new |
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FWIW I don't think they ever used xaa. They've always had their own |
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kernel module. |
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> drivers). Also, some machines don't have problems, and some do. See here: |
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> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?forumid=14 |
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My experiences with 1.0-4191 are well documented on that forum. |
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> I say keep 'em masked. Of course there's nothing wrong with you guys using |
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> them. If they work for you, great. |
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I definitely agree. |
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> > If it is not at all possible to unmask can I be given an idea of timescale |
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> > and specific causes out of curiosity? |
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> Maybe next driver release? |
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