On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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.
and because of that I sold the 8600GT and bought a HD3870. BUT: nvidia does almost everything in its driver - it replaces most of X functions. So you don't win anything by using an unstable X.
