Re: nvidia or gtk+ buggy?

[stappers stappers nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:00:40PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 12/20/05, Christian Kirbach <Christian Kirbach student uni-siegen de> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I need your help. Look at bug 313646
> >   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313646
> >
> > This has stirred at least many Gentoo folk
> >
> >   http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-393284-highlight-gtk+fonts.html
> >   http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113123
> >
> > That is why I believe it requires our attention. I have asked for some
> > information and have no idea where to go from here.
> > This seems to affect Gentoo people with gtk 2.8 using the nvidia
> > binary driver (I strongly believe the forum poster "sho" is actually
> > using nvidia driver as well, I just contacted him/her).
> >
> > I am asking for advice especially from the experts :)
> 
> "Disabling RenderAccel in xorg.conf or using the OpenSource nv driver solved the
> problem here. Seems to be a bug in nVidia driver."
> 
> "I confirm that, disabling RenderAccel solves the problem with nVidia drivers
> version 76.67."
> 
> and several other comments....  It's an nvidia bug, and there's not a
> whole lot we can do about it.  You resolved it correctly earlier.  I'm
> puzzled, though, why did you reopen?  I mean, it's great that you're
> trying to help them out, but we probably couldn't help no matter how
> much we wanted to; all we can really do is point them at the people
> who can help them.

And we can warn many many other users to buy hardware that
has free[1] software support from the manufactor.

> 
> Cheers,
> Elijah
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Cheers
Geert Stappers

[1] free as in freedom of speech.