[ale] New Nvidia Drivers

[Justin Caratzas]

Worked like a charm!

Justin C.

>cool! I'll test that on my nvidia machine. Too bad the ati radeon
>driver still is crap. Firefox is dog slow on scrolling and flash
>hi-res is choppy.  The fglrx driver from ati is mostly crap on this
>laptop.
>
>On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Omar Chanouha <ofosho at gatech.edu>
>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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