[ale] New Nvidia Drivers

[justin caratzas]

Yikes, apparently claws-mail went nuts last night.  I apologize for spamming
the list

Justin

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Robert Coggins <ale at cogginsnet.com> wrote:

> Thanks!  I installed the drivers and browsing seems to be much better.
> I hope this resolves all of my overall refreshing issues.  I see them
> mostly in FF and rdesktop when connecting to windows machines.  We'll
> see...
>
> Robert
>
> Omar Chanouha wrote:
> > I don't know if this message will help anyone, but it may.
> >
> > If you happen to be running a desktop with nvidia drivers, and your
> > distro does not automatically update you to the bleeding edge, ie.
> > gentoo. Then you might want to consider getting the new 180.* series
> > of drivers have resolved what I would consider a huge bug with
> > firefox. Prior to updating, certain sites, gmail specifically, would
> > scroll very slowly and hi-res flash videos were very choppy.
> >
> > You can get your current driver number from /proc/driver/nvidia/version
> >
> > and you can test your driver with this site:
> >
> > http://www.gatechdining.com/plans.html
> >
> > Just go there and scroll up and down quickly, if it scrolls your good.
> > If it freezes and your CPU jumps to 99%, your not so good.
> >
> > Hope that is not old news, and helps someone,
> >
> > -OFosho, Miami Dolphin and Relieved Nvidia User
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