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On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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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. |
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> Especially not KDE-4. |
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> 12 seconds to render a translucent menu is unacceptable, so I use the a |
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> beta X to get improved EXA. It is better than latest release, but the gui |
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> system as a whole is now less stable. |
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and because of that I sold the 8600GT and bought a HD3870. |
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BUT: nvidia does almost everything in its driver - it replaces most of X |
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functions. So you don't win anything by using an unstable X. |
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