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