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On Friday 15 August 2008 11:51:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Friday 15 August 2008 10:26:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > > any reason why you use an unreleased X? There are no new features or |
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> > > improvements. And KDE works fine with 1.4 release. |
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> > Obviously you are not one of the unfortunate misfits who was stupid |
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> > enough to buy a new notebook with a nVidia 8 or 9 series card :-) |
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> no, but I owned a 8600GT which works fine with current stable X and |
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> stable/unstable nvidia drivers. |
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> Why should a prerelease X be needed at all? |
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The 8600GT most certainly does not work fine on anything using 2D. Especially |
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not KDE-4. |
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12 seconds to render a translucent menu is unacceptable, so I use the a beta X |
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to get improved EXA. It is better than latest release, but the gui system as a |
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whole is now less stable. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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