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| From: | Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated | ||
| Date: | Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:14:21 | ||
| Message-Id: | 200808151414.17201.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated by Alan McKinnon |
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| 1 | On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
| 2 | > On Friday 15 August 2008 12:49:26 b.n. wrote: |
| 3 | > > Alan McKinnon ha scritto: |
| 4 | > > |
| 5 | > > This is the second thread in a few days that reports problems with |
| 6 | > > nVidia cards. |
| 7 | > > |
| 8 | > > Owning a 3rd generation Macbook Pro (nVidia Geforce 8600M GT) with |
| 9 | > > Gentoo on, I'm a bit worried. I never noticed significant problems on |
| 10 | > > that machine, but I would like to be aware of what's going on. |
| 11 | > > |
| 12 | > > Is there some link explaining what problems there are with such nVidia |
| 13 | > > cards? |
| 14 | > > |
| 15 | > > m. |
| 16 | > |
| 17 | > Here you go, all 26 pages of it: |
| 18 | > |
| 19 | > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=115916 |
| 20 | > |
| 21 | > Then there's also the issue of the GPU silicon failing in shocking numbers. |
| 22 | > More details on The Register and Slashdot. Apparently ALL 8 and 9 series |
| 23 | > GPUs are affected and it's hitting ALL vendors. It's related to the |
| 24 | > manufacture of those chips and they are failing in alarming numbers under |
| 25 | > thermal load. |
| 26 | > |
| 27 | > It's sad actually. This has a very high potential to sink nVidia |
| 28 | > completely. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | the inquirer has a long article series about the failing gpu problem. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | In short: all 8XXX chips are bad. Because of the thermal environment laptops |
| 33 | are on a different place of the bell curve than desktops. Laptops with nvidia |
| 34 | graphic are failing left and right. Whole series of HP, Dell, Asus, laptops |
| 35 | are walking ghosts. Desktops might be in the mess soon too. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/13/nvidia-posts-121- |
| 38 | million-loss |
| 39 | |
| 40 | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/12/nvidia-g92s-g94- |
| 41 | reportedly |
| 42 | |
| 43 | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/31/hp-pays-half-nvidia- |
| 44 | problems |
| 45 | |
| 46 | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/07/nvidia-meltdown-blame- |
| 47 | game |
| 48 | |
| 49 | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/09/nvidia-g84-g86-bad |
| 50 | |
| 51 | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/27/dell-models-defective- |
| 52 | nvidia |
| 53 | |
| 54 | that their drivers for the 8XXX and 9XXX series suck (on win and lin) is only |
| 55 | one of their problems. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated | Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated | "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com> |