All I want for Christmas is... F10 KDE4.2 Live... for testing...

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 16:00:25 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 16:39 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > And yet several of the KDE4.2 widgets are designed to use the advanced
> > features offered by the proprietary nvidia drivers
> 
> The only such widget I'm aware of is the wholely useless bluemarble widget
> (which wants OpenGL shaders which are only implemented in the proprietary
> drivers) and I'm wondering why we don't just -DDISABLE_bluemarble.
> 
> > and the end users will be using the proprietary drivers.
> 
> They really shouldn't, they aren't supported and are known to cause a lot of
> trouble.

folderview uses the advanced rendering.  Details in this bug report.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473446

So what non proprietary driver should I be using for my nvidia card ?
It needs to support twinview for dual monitors and have a gl library.




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