[arch-general] Latest NVIDIA en kernel update

[Gaurish Sharma]

On 04/23/2010 12:04 PM, Manne Merak wrote:
> I see there are some discussions going on the nvidia, KDE and arch 
> forums about the performance of KDE 4.4 and latest nvidia driver, no 
> results yet as I can see.
> My current setup with 190.53 works fast and snappy (no special xorg 
> param); but updating to anything later drops performance by a factor, 
> so I resisted upgrading nvidia.  Now with the latest kernel update I 
> cannot keep the 190.53 driver.
> Anyone have a solution for performance tweaking the latest KDE and 
> nvidia combo?  (I dont want to get too out of sync with the updates).
>
> Manne
>
Hi,
you can upgrade to nvidia 195.36 as the issue has been fixed.from the 
changelog[1]

* Fixed a performance regression with non-antialiased text in KDE4.


[1] http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_195.36.15.html 
<http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_195.36.15.html>

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Regards,
Gaurish Sharma
www.gaurishsharma.com