On Wednesday 01 April 2009 14:49:15 Rex Dieter wrote:
Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> I also don't think its a graphic driver issue - usually many
> self-made-professionals point to that, without any real indication.
> If you use nv and the problem persists, it has nothing to do with the
> proprietary nvidia driver, period.
There's well-founded experience behind our seemingly crazy requests to
reproduce bugs free of nvidia's taint (all files, libs, even nv's own
libGL, etc...). I once found it hard to believe too, until I witnessed it
(pauses/freezes in particular). NVidia's drivers are freaky beasts, and
has caused countless episodes of wasted debugging. More than a few times,
folk *swore* to me that their systems were nvidia-driver free... and guess
what, they weren't, and when purged completely, wierdness disappeared.
I (we) really need to document this all on the wiki somewhere, so I don't
need to re-write this rant every few weeks.
Why not write up a section on
http://userbase.kde.org/Troubleshooting?
Anne
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