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Phoronix: NVIDIA 64-bit FreeBSD Graphics Driver Found A week ago NVIDIA released the NVIDIA 195.22 Linux driver, but early this morning NVIDIA's Unix graphics team pushed out the FreeBSD 195.22 driver. This FreeBSD driver update basically brings it up to speed with the latest beta Linux driver with the VDPAU improvements, DisplayPort fixes, and other new support in this binary driver... http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Nzc2OQ

I dont record, i watch it live, as long as i don't change size it plays more or less forever, i just dislike the content of that tv station

Quote: Originally Posted by Apopas The new feature list looks impressive! Thanks a lot for the hard work you do Michael. Yes and Phoronix Kernel Test Farm looks also very impressive Thank you.

Quote: Originally Posted by XorEaxEax Faster executable, and yes it's also likely that the executable will end up being smaller with link time optimization. Also you should combine '-flto' with '-fwhole-program' for the best results (enables more aggressive interprocedural optimizations) I'll keep it in mind when I install gcc-4.5 in my Gentoo. Thanks a lot XorEaxEax

bridgman: what usually happens with the kernel is the team tries to do roll-up releases every few weeks, so that we don't get a flood of kernel releases with small fixes, and each big release has a bit of time to get some vague testing done on it. The other components are a little less scheduled, but Dave will push an update when he thinks he's got everything that should go into it done right, I think.

Quote: Originally Posted by Melcar Nowhere in GNOME does it say you *must* change the settings. Point? In GNOME, you either are not given the opportunity to change the settings or you must install Gconf and mess around with it. In KDE, all the settings are right there in the Systemsettings program.

Quote: Originally Posted by Yfrwlf If you're using standard APIs, it should work for both GDM and KDM, not just GDM. All I know is that Linux should be all about standards and maximizing competition and choice, and that can't be done without putting standards that allow interoperability at the top of the agenda. Plymouth should be able to communicate with either display manager using the same API. So what happens when a standard API...

There's a blog post by Dave Airlie about this stuff here: http://airlied.livejournal.com/69074.html it notes that some of the performance 'regression' is due to the new driver doing vsync, which we wouldn't want to disable (as you get tearing without it).

Phoronix is the new Sherlock Holmes?

Quote: Originally Posted by thefirstm Nowhere in KDE does it say that you *must* change the settings. If the defaults work for you, then by all means leave them. It is just good to have them there for people who would like to change them. Nowhere in GNOME does it say you *must* change the settings. Point? Most people I noticed tend to fixate themselves on KDE's superior customization options. That really gets you nowhere. There are far...