Hi,<br>If your card is so old you can't even get drivers for it, I doubt you'd be able to use it with KDE 4 very well even if you were able to get the drivers. Personally I think KDE 4 is the "Vista" of Linux, and for those who may flame "GNU/Linux". Of course don't take it the wrong way, all I mean is KDE 4 is flashy, with a ton of features, which means, it'll be slower on most computers. Even with compositing disabled it'll be slow on an older graphics card, which also may go in part with your computers performance. Personally I think the minimum specs to run KDE 4 should be upped.<br>
<br>You may be better off running a smaller GUI, such as LXDE, or XFCE if you computer is unable to handle the bigger ones.<br><br>I also have one more thing to throw in, I have noticed KDE 4 getting faster over time since KDE 4 was originally released, and lots of new features thrown in, as well as stability. However, one problem, no matter what the computer I have had, from older ones, to even the most newest, I find Dolphin is quite slow, espechially when it comes to large files, often crashing the application. Don't get me wrong, I love Dolphin, but I think there is a big issue there, as file managing is almost unusable graphically, most of the time i'd have to resort to the terminal to move things, but as you may see i'm fine with this, but many others, such as a common end user does not want to use the terminal, so for now Dolphin is unusable for a lot of people I know, and i'd be unable to recomend it to them. Of course i'm running KDE 4.2 in Kubuntu, perhaps it is a specific Distro problem, has anyone else had the same issue?<br>
<br>-Alex<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Karl Sinn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ks@budostore.de">ks@budostore.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
I have the same, my computer is simply unuseable with KDE4.<br>
<br>
Am Donnerstag, 25. Juni 2009 03:18:45 schrieb Michael Pyne:<br>
</div><div class="im">> In short, you just need to wait for the video driver support to catch up to<br>
> allow compositing to work smoothly.<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">My video drivers are not supported any more (NVIDIA) because the card is just<br>
to old. Does this mean that I'll never have a fast running KDE4 on my<br>
computer?<br>
<br>
Karl<br>
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