Mar 30
NVidia released a new stable driver today. You can download it here. A lot of fixes in this one, especially for their hardware video decoding, VDPAU. Also it fixes KDE4 Plasma OpenGL crashes, X server crashes, and crashes with redirected OpenGL.
Sounds good to me.
Update: Just installed the driver, and it also fixes a World Of Goo issue I had where it wouldn’t run under Jaunty AMD64. It now runs, and runs awesome!
Nov 2
My desktop has been feeling quite sluggish lately, so I decided to do a test.
Current system:
My old system:
The difference, using them both side by side, is pretty drastic. The old system just blows away my new system. I can barely scroll in firefox, and switching tabs takes like 1.5-2 seconds on my new system, on the old system it flies. Also full screen video can’t be done without major choppyness on new system, but the old one works awesome.
I think I am going to have to replace the video card in the new system, because I can barely use Linux with this card, even with compiz disabled. Or just deal with it until open source drivers make more headway (although with the Xorg people being so grumpy towards the radeonhd people, who knows when that will happen).