On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:54:58 +0300, Ionuț Bîru <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/28/2010 09:35 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:25:27 +0200, Andreas Radke<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> A closed source driver should never hold back an OSS package. So what's >>> the state with nvidia and the new beta driver? If it won't hit the repos >>> until the end of the week I don't want to wait any longer. >> >> I agree. If it's really that driver holding xorg back it should just be >> moved. Nvidia doesn't tellanybody when they plan new releases or fix a >> bug. Last but not least I didn't notice any slowdown and there is also >> no report in our tracker about this. So it cannot be that critical. >> > > i can't agree with you. every time somebody reported an issue with > nvidia, being even a performance regression, you personally closed it > as "we can't do anything"
That's not true. Check for yourself: <https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=nvidia&project=1&search_name=&type[]=&sev[]=&pri[]=&due[]=&reported[]=&cat[]=&status[]=&percent[]=&opened=&dev=&closed=Pierre&duedatefrom=&duedateto=&changedfrom=&changedto=&openedfrom=&openedto=&closedfrom=&closedto=&do=index> > i'm hit with this issue and i know a dozen. this regression makes > rendering antialised fonts in gtk 10 times slower and in kde when > using non-antialiased fonts [1] I really don't care if xorg is moved to extra or not, but I think people should submit these bug reports to our bug tracker. > we have to think about our users first. your statistics say that > nvidia is dominant in our community[2] > > [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=154563 According to this thread this is fixed in the latest driver. Maybe you should consider updating to that then. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
