Re: Criticism of F9 Fairness.

On Tuesday, 17 בJune 2008 20:18:55 Rex Dieter wrote:
> Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > While being experimental people rely on it also to get their work done.
> > Problems with NVidia drivers, Xinerama problems with X Windows.
>
> NVidia is nothing but NVidia's problems. srsly.

Yes and no. Fedora 9 is released with a (and I must stress this) BETA version 
of Xwindows. And that is Fedora's problem. On the other hand, the ABI 
(whatever that is) is apparently set in stone. So NVidia should be doing a 
better job providing timely support for a major Linux distribution. While my 
main desktop is still Fedora 8. My multimedia machine is using a GeForce 2  
and has already been upgraded to Fedora 9. Only the open source NV driver 
doesn't work with a TV out only setup. And Nouveau still doesn't support TV 
out at all as far as I know. And no Legacy driver support.

Right now I'm pretending that the VESA driver is providing almost resonable 
performance. It's tough watching the Cylon Hub blow up in jerk motion.

>
> Xinerama?  can't comment, not aware of any issues there.

Apperantly... AaronP from NVIDIA Corporation this month says that there is a 
known problem with OpenGL in Xinerama which should be fixed in the next 
release.

Link to the discussion can be found at:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=114175

If anyone can find more direct info, it would be good.

I also remember awhile back, there was a discussion on this mailing list with 
a link pointing to a kde blog indicating that there was an Xinerama problem 
and KDE 4.0x

> > with much appreciation to the very hard work everyone is putting into
> > Fedora) a brain dead KDE 4.0x.
>
> Calling it brain dead is a bit harsh, but you do have a point, here's
> some more interesting reading:
>
> http://troy-at-kde.livejournal.com/16734.html
>

Yes it is interesting reading. And quite right, but If I can't use it, I can't 
be of much help can I. Like I said in a previous email to this forum. KDE 4.1 
seems to be much much better, but Fedora 9 needs to overcome the Xwindows 
problem before it can be useful to me and I can install it on my main 
desktop.

Eli

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