Nvidia on KDE 4.1: a greedy problem
KDE 4.1 will be the first major release since KDE 4.0 and will come along with quite some features many people missed in the 4.0 release, most notable the KDE PIM suite. Besides, many performance and stabilization fixes went into the release, and with RC 1 KDE is already usable on a daily base (although there are hick ups once in a while, of course). To get an idea about the current state a safe way is to install KDE4Daily in a virtual machine. It is snappy, fast and simply works.
However, if you install it afterwards on a real machine, you might be surprised to see that KDE 4.1 can also be sluggish, slow, sticky and whatnot - although it is running on a power machine. The reason behind that is most likely the graphics hardware: a NVIDIA card. The proprietary drivers for these cards have numerous 2D problems and especially a set of problems with the newest Qt/KDE.
This wouldn’t be a major problem if the Open Source community would be supported by the company to develop free drivers - like AMD/ATI, who hand out documentation, or Intel, who at least pay developers and provide them NDA documentation. NIVIDIA only provides a basic 2D graphics driver. While that is still nice, it is simply not contemporary any more.
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Not sure about kde 4, but
Not sure about kde 4, but the latest beta nvidia drivers combined with 2.6.26 are pretty good compared to older versions.
For the first time in a long time my system is working the way it always should