Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 09 August 2008 21:03:37 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > see the links above. In short, you are screwed. There is no real remedy
> > > until Nvidia fixes their broken drivers. Some stuff might help a bit -
> > > but most of the time one thing gets slightly better and another one a
> > > lot worse. The only good news: there is nothing wrong with your system.
> >
> > Well that's good to know at least. The bummer is that I speced this
> > laptop based on what I knew about nvidia's stuff. Nothing wrong in that,
> > I was just 18 months out of date!
>
> so you don't know about the 'nvidia mobile gpus dying like flies' problem?

You nasty horrible terrible man you. Did you have to remind me of that? :-)

Notebook was delivered 10 days ago on a Friday. That night I read the post 
about it on slashdot. I'm so pissed about this card that I'm tending to ignore 
it and hope the problems will go away (which they won't...)

> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/31/hp-pays-half-nvidia-
> problems
>
> just read the links in the text and below. Maybe you can still get a
> different one...?

It's a mobo :-(   That means a motherboard replacement and I don't know what 
Dell SA's position is on this. I'll have to check with the company account 
manager, but I think my only recourse is going to be a "Keep the customer 
happy!" internal POV. That and the fact that we buy truckloads of their 
servers, and a standard 40% discount across the board on all Dell products. 
Wish me luck


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