A Use for NVidia
July 21, 2008 – 6:14 pmThe world has seen a significant amount of complaining about NVidia cards (the 8600 has had it’s fair share of whippings).
However, I’ve come to a great realisation:
with my exceptionally slow nvidia card I can see absolutely every draw that occurs on the screen. Great for debugging paint events, and no need to export QT_FLUSH_PAINT=1.
All you devs should go out and get one 
7 Responses to “A Use for NVidia”
Actually you should go and buy a AMD’s 3D card so you get change to test open source drivers then. And you support AMD to stay on market so the Intel and nVidia ain’t going to rule the market what leads that prices goes up and quality/development goes down.
Currently AMD has fastest card again… and drivers seems to be in better shape now for over a year.
I have desktop PC a 8600GT OC and laptop a AMD x1700 and AMD is much better with Compiz or Kwin
By Fri13 on Jul 21, 2008
Fri13 is a few eggs short of a dozen, me thinks
By Ian Monroe on Jul 22, 2008
Actualy, I don’t think it the reason is in nVidia cards or, either, nVidia drivers.
I was using gentoo for 3 years and was using kde4 with it until may/2008. And I have no artifacts or slow drawings with closed source dirvers. After that I jumped to kubuntu 8.04. And now (and problem seems to appear only in kde4) every popup menu etc. redraws slow with ugly black background while animation.
So it is either distribution specific problem or kde4 on ubuntu specific problem. Stop rushing on nVidia
By GreenPeace on Jul 22, 2008
It is a nVidia issue though. I’m guessing your configuration just changed enough between Gentoo and Kubuntu that it revealed the problem.
By Ian Monroe on Jul 22, 2008
My hardware was not changed. As far as I get it is new Qt problem. They just don’t want to tweak Qt for nvidia. Instead of that they want nvidia to tweak for Qt. It is funny.. well, no, it is not.
Btw I respect Trolls and KDE and Nvidia. But here just common issue, programmers always face up different problems and then they can choose the other way or ignore it. KDE and Qt ignore the problem.
By GreenPeace on Jul 23, 2008
That’s funny. I have an nVidia 8600GT card with Kubuntu 8.04 and KDE 4 yet I don’t experience those problems.
I did use Envy to install my video drivers, perhaps that’s what is missing.
It’s refreshing to see some people with a sense of humour though.
By NuclearPeon on Jul 25, 2008
I have a nice fanless 8600GTS and it rocks for Linux because you don’t have to worry about having a driver to stop the fan running 100%
By kumkie on Aug 31, 2008