Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers,

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Dienstag 25 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/25/2009 02:55 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Dienstag 25 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> On 08/25/2009 02:33 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >>> On Montag 24 August 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
> >>>> szalkai@×××××××.net schrieb:
> >>>>> Now that this exciting little flamewar has finished, and everybody is
> >>>>> friends again :), could you Duncan please give some examples of major
> >>>>>    breakage in KDE4?
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm not Duncan but I have 5 reasons not to switch to kde4 atm.
> >>>>
> >>>> 1) Speed: I have a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ with
> >>>> 8GB of ram and a Radeon HD 3600 card but still kde 4.3 most of the
> >>>> time feels like walking through mud.
> >>>
> >>> turn of composite or install a xorg-server with the
> >>> fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch and see kde fly.
> >>
> >> ...and see it produce a crapload of artifacts during window and menu
> >> opening.  Still better than a slow as molasses GUI though.
> >>
> >> In any event though, that's hardly KDE's fault anyway.  It's the crappy
> >> Catalyst drivers from AMD (I suffer the same issues).
> >
> > or from a bad decision by the xorg devs to punish everybody for crappy
> > intel hardware.
>
> Only Catalyst has this problem.  The open source Radeon drivers are fine
> (and of course NVidia's closed drivers and everything Intel is fine
> too).  It's one of those Catalyst bugs that are there for several years
> but one bothers fixing.

nvidia was not fine for a long time - and since nvidia replaces a lot of x and 
kernel funtionailty within their driver I would not be surprised if they 
replaced the offending parts too. Intel is not hit, because it is their patch 
that made their life splendid and everybody else bad.