Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

[Eric F Crist]

On Thursday 08 January 2004 08:47 am, Nick Tonkin wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:47:37 +0000, Robert Downes
>
> <nullentropy at lineone.net> wrote:
> > Nick Tonkin wrote:
> >> Andrew, thanks for the pointer. The XFree86 nv driver is what I have
> >> been using. I'm going to try to install and use Nvidia's own one.
> >
> > Really? I'm using a GeForce 2 MX 400 (64Mb) RAM, and I get an excellent
> > picture with a Philips 109P2 monitor, using the nv driver for X.
>
> Are you using KDE 3? I'm going to experiment with some other window
> managers, but I have observed that there are weird problems with color and
> focus too.
>
>
> Specifically, when I switch between one application window and another,
> the contents of other wwindows and the desktop (eg the task bar icons and
> text) sometimes become blurred and the colors shift (white becomes grey,
> eg). At first I thought this might be an issue with Opera but I have found
> it to happen with Konsole, KWord, etc.

I am running KDE 3 with XFree86 4.3.0 on a laptop with no troubles at all.  I 
don't think it's a problem with KDE, but rather your settings in XFree86 or 
even a hardware problem.

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Eric F Crist
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