but maybe he is looking for an excuse to drop KDE and move to Gnome? *snicker* On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Nathan England wrote: > On Wednesday 07 January 2009 07:03:16 Jerry Davis wrote: >> I finally broke down and after 5 good years with my old >> laptop bought one with a NVIDIA board in it. I am very satisfied with it, >> (except the DVD drive does not work -- another topic someday), but KDE 4.x >> does strange things with NVIDIA. Very strange things. So this time I >> installed Ubuntu instead, with KDE on the side, and I use gnome-terminal >> now, instead of Konsole (which I really prefer). > > > Jerry, > > The problem with the nvidia drivers is the new KDE is using various features > of the drivers that have not been used before, thus they have not been tested > very well. nVidia jumped on it and updated the drivers to support the features > that were thought to work. I don't know the details more than that, but that > is the gist of it. > > Regardless, if you disable desktop effects in KDE everything else will work > just fine. I believe you can also change the renderer from OpenGL to xrender > and it will work without problems, and should still be fairly fast. > Don't give up on KDE and switch to Gnome!!! > > nathan > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss