kwin discontinued ?

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i think ati has suffered such a bad rep, for such a long time in the linux community that will take a while - a long while - and pristine drivers before...

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NO YOU DIDN'T !!! ... darnit !! :P


seriously though would you at least i dunno, explain it ? ..... i think everyone is as much...

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i'm not super familiar with forum software in particular and this is may be possible across the board, but anyway i do know that on another forum i'm...

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well alright i found some shady website that had the source for the lib, compiled it, move it to /usr/lib and now the game runs.

linux...

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well that was my question exactly; i thought i had read somewhere that libtxc-dxtn was no longer necessary for r300c, or something. i thought that maybe...

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you're not "disgressing", that's exactly the topic of the thread i started


brigdman: i am running r300g; says so in...

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yes r5xx ... which doesn't seem to be getting any love from anybody, really ... i'm stuck in the middle, with what seems to have been the last incarnation...

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but, my hardware is neither r3xx or r4xx ?

by the by, i just ran kwin for about 15 minutes and my cpu temp shot up to 90C ......

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well, a little update: it seems that everywhere i turn to ask, they tell it's ATI's fault.

so i'll have to ask again: ati, why did you...

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i just tried that (kwinrc), and launched kwin with the --replace flag.

a song i was playing became choppy; when i tried to go back to konsole...

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have they pulled the plug on kwin ? i mean, are developers not actively working on it anymore?

i'm saying this because things have degraded...

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well my mistake .. i didnt think this was to only be for the benefit of nvidia users .. the console i started firefox from is filled with error messages...

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well, i got the beta installed, and it as trouble playing a 600x400 video.. i mean, i can't even move my mouse!

on some other video, it...

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how bout they just get it working, period?

ever since about two major updates ago, kwin totally broke down for me; aside from crashing...

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very few "vendors" will ever precompile and package applications or modules for specific distros. it's usually seen with the more mainstream...