NVidia Bitmap Corruption and Beta 180.06 Drivers Report

[Michael Krueger]

Am 25.11.2008, 10:02 Uhr, schrieb Octavian Florea <miron.florea at web.de>:

> On 11/25/2008 10:09 AM, Michael Krueger wrote:
>> I'm not sure if this was already discussed... but the Kubuntu folks do
>> provide updates to the Linux Kernel as well ... and since everybody  
>> knows
>> that with the 177 nVidia driver KDE 4.x has still rendering issues...  
>> what
>> are the chances that we get a Kubuntu supported update via Adept to 8.10
>> of the nVidia driver that would fix all known KDE issues? Be it 180 or  
>> 182
>> or whatever. If tests do show that there is a stable working nVidia  
>> driver
>> I would like to get it via Adept, so that I don't have problems with
>> Kernel updates...
>>
> Well, the 180.xx nvidia drivers are betas and I think the devs are
> waiting for a final release.
> But since that may take a while (and 177.80 doesn't get along too well
> with KDE4) it's no wonder that quite a few users turned into  
> "beta-testers".
>
And that is not what I meant. As long as those drivers are beta's that is  
perfectly ok to not provide them to all users. But if nVidia thinks that  
the driver is final, I would like to get it as fast as possible via Adept.


-- 
Michael
VoIPFuture