On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:54:58 +0300, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 09/28/2010 09:35 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:25:27 +0200, Andreas Radke<a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
A closed source driver should never hold back an OSS package. So what's the state with nvidia and the new beta driver? If it won't hit the repos until the end of the week I don't want to wait any longer.
I agree. If it's really that driver holding xorg back it should just be moved. Nvidia doesn't tellanybody when they plan new releases or fix a bug. Last but not least I didn't notice any slowdown and there is also no report in our tracker about this. So it cannot be that critical.
i can't agree with you. every time somebody reported an issue with nvidia, being even a performance regression, you personally closed it as "we can't do anything"
That's not true. Check for yourself: <https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=nvidia&project=1&search_name=&type[]=&sev[]=&pri[]=&due[]=&reported[]=&cat[]=&status[]=&percent[]=&opened=&dev=&closed=Pierre&duedatefrom=&duedateto=&changedfrom=&changedto=&openedfrom=&openedto=&closedfrom=&closedto=&do=index>
i'm hit with this issue and i know a dozen. this regression makes rendering antialised fonts in gtk 10 times slower and in kde when using non-antialiased fonts [1]
I really don't care if xorg is moved to extra or not, but I think people should submit these bug reports to our bug tracker.
we have to think about our users first. your statistics say that nvidia is dominant in our community[2]
According to this thread this is fixed in the latest driver. Maybe you should consider updating to that then. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre