[CentOS] Re: dragging windows leaves traces -- running older GeForce drivers on newer cards

[Steve Huff]

On Jun 6, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:

> From: Robin Mordasiewicz <robin at bullseye.tv>
>> I have an excellent nvidia graphics card, I get excellent fps, all agp
>> features are installed correctly etc.
>
> In Windows or Linux?  And by "all agp features are installed 
> correctly,"
> what do you mean and how are you getting this?
>
>> When I drag windows around wit hthe opaque settings on it leaves 
>> traces
>> for a couple milliseconds as it redraws the window, but it just looks 
>> so
>> crummy to see.
> Umm, what Windows version offers translucent settings comparable to 
> Linux
> desktops?  None that I know of.  And by "opaque," do you mean 
> translucent/
> "see through" is turned on, but set to 0%?  If so, that's still 
> transcluent.

dunno about y'all, but i read the OP's use of "opaque" to mean a 
window-manager-specific option of dragging a window while displaying 
its contents vs. dragging a window as an outline, which seems a much 
simpler explanation than all of this wacky translucency or 
RENDER-related stuff.  hopefully the OP will clear things up.

it would also be good to know which window manager we're talking about.

i second the recommendation of using the "nvidia" driver versus the 
"nv" driver.

-steve

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