aiglx + nvidia = missing text?

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 22:39 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On 4/24/06, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 13:45 +0200, Thomas Widhalm wrote:
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> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I installed the aiglx repo and enabled some "special effects" It looks
> > > great, but some text is missing. The K Menu sometimes shows no text at
> > > all, the Control Center the same. Sometimes it gets better, but this no
> > > way to work.
> > >
> > > Is there some hint you can give me or is aiglx just too beta to use?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Thomas
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> >
> > Which drivers are you using?
> > The binary ones do not support aiglx. Maybe the next version will.
> 
> Actually, I think they might now.  nVidia released a new version not
> too long ago:
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-8756.html
> The Release Highlights mention many things about OpenGL, Composite,
> GLX, etc.  They don't mention AIGLX specifically, but several things
> seem to sound a lot like it.  I have not had time yet to install FC5
> to try it out, but will soon.  Does anyone more knowledgable about
> this know if these are the extensions needed by AIGLX?
> 
> I think the fact that the OP was able to do something (and apparently,
> most things with the excpetion of some text) with AIGLX suggests that
> it is not unsupported.  He shouldn't get anything except an error
> message otherwise, right?
> 
> Jonathan

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=65928&highlight=aiglx

Gilboa