Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 16:55:42 EST 2008


On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> both my systems use
>> nvidia or ati cards that are not supported yet (although they were
>> supported under kde 3.x)
>  WTF does KDE have to do with one's video card?  Isn't that the X server's job?
>  Linux gets closer and closer to being as good as MS Windows all the
> time.  I hope this trend reverses itself, and Linux goes back to
> improving on a regular basis.

  After hearing about it, I did some research.  It looks like KDE4 is
using some OpenGL which some drivers have 'pretty big emotional
issues' over.  I'll let you know if I encounter any issues Greg.
What's your card, and what color depth are you running at?

-- 
-- Thomas


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