looks like Catalyst 9.2beta leaked.

[Linuxhippy]

a nvidia using friend of mine really loves the nvidia drivers! With them the text in some kde menus (like the one to add plasmoids) is white on white - whatever he does to change that, it does not help .... he is using nouveau now ...

I don't see how this relates to the original topic, it seems the old phenomena - people defending their hardware
I don't even use a NVidia GPU, the only one I have is a GF6600 I plug in sometimes to test my software on.

As I said I am not a fanboy of anyone and I am not interested in a flame, I also explicitly said their drivers *do* have problems, but so do the ATI drivers...

the radeon driver has pretty solid EXA/ Render support.

Yes the readeon driver does pretty well for RENDER, but only for R500 and below. There's no accaleration code for R600 and up, released in early 2007.

- Clemens

[BlackStar]

Installed these drivers:

1. no - or very slight - improvement to compiz

2. aticonfig --odgc returns "ERROR - Could not find library: libatiadlxx.so"

Haven't tried video playback yet.

Maybe amd should consider a public beta program?

[RealNC]

Then his card must be really old. Most fixes are for GF8+. Older drivers got last update over 6 month ago. Ok, compared to fglrx which supports (in theory) all DX8+ cards you get more updates for fglrx.

Nah, DX8 cards have been abandoned long ago. The last fglrx supporting them was even before the "Catalyst for Linux" appeared; last release for them was fglrx 8.28.8. Everything after that was DX9+ only (Radeon 9500 and above).

[Kano]

Right, they are DX9, but not the fastest ones So basically only GF5 series has lower status from the DX9 NV cards then.

[TASADAR-F]

are you sure you installed it correctly?

Yes.

The problem is the first screen "login screen" appear with lots lots lots pixels of lots lots colors. You can't read anything.

[energyman]

btw, friend just told me that composite with the latest stable nvidia is still broken. If you try to 'pull' marked text in ff, composite is switched off. The good news - the same happens with ati. So both are broken.

[Kano]

Well I personally don't need composite. I prefer using vdpau without tearing. Desktop 3d effects are nice to show some V user that Linux can handle more 3d then V, but for everyday use nobody really needs it. U enables it by default and uses only minimal effects, you would hardy see a difference when it is out anyway.

[gsacks]

Well I personally don't need composite. I prefer using vdpau without tearing. Desktop 3d effects are nice to show some V user that Linux can handle more 3d then V, but for everyday use nobody really needs it. U enables it by default and uses only minimal effects, you would hardy see a difference when it is out anyway.

Well, I need it for everyday use. I run Ubuntu on an HTPC and a 720P plasma screen. When I am using that computer and browsing the web from 10 feet away, text is unreadable. I use the 'zoom' feature of compiz to make the text of the article I am reading large enough to fill the screen. I do this reading Phoronix forums ALL THE TIME. (Although I am using an XP desktop at the moment). I also use it to zoom in on undersized video clips in web pages and make them as big as I want. Everybody's individual use case is different.

I've read a lot of your posts on Phoronix and I respect your knowledge of Linux. It is far greater than mine, but I am just getting sick of reading people state that composite desktop features have to value, just because they don't use it.

[Kano]

Maybe you don't know that FF has like all common web browsers a built-in function to resize text when you hold ctrl + use mouse wheel?

[yotambien]

Maybe you don't know that FF has like all common web browsers a built-in function to resize text when you hold ctrl + use mouse wheel?

I personally prefer CTRL + "+", I hate to take my hands off the keyboard, but good trick anyway.

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