Phoronix IRC Log: 2009-12-04

Omar87_: Hi all.
AidanLinz: hi
Ivanovic: michaellarabel: so you will be at fosdem again?
Ivanovic: we will probably have our wesnoth mini conf there, too (you know, getting really anually by now...)
thansen: anyone around who can give me the lowdown on nvidia drivers these days
thansen: haven't used them in ages and just got a laptop with 230M and they're failing to load up fully
redeeman: well
redeeman: basically
redeeman: many problems exist
redeeman: 2d is slow
redeeman: 3d is fast though
redeeman: and it works
redeeman: powersaving may or may not work, and do really funky stuff
redeeman: depending on laptop
redeeman: there might be stability problems
redeeman: some have it, some don't
thansen: redeeman: sorry, ran off for a little while
thansen: I'm getting an error in xorg log WAIT(0)...
redeeman: i think you can fix that by setting some useevents option to 0 or seomthing
redeeman: try the nvnews forum
redeeman: i've got to go now
thansen: redeeman: ok, thanks
guest720: does the nvidia gt220's sound over hdmi works?

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