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gtk+3.0 package

  1. Bug #954352
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 954352

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Darxus (darxus) wrote :

Now that I know that the Nvidia problem is due to Nvidia choosing to build their driver in a way that doesn't allow shared memory...

"While not a big deal on machines with 2+GB ram on older machines with 1 GB it does represent a bit of an issue." - Bug #725434

It's seeming more reasonable to go ahead and enable cairo-gl and just recommend that people use Nouveau instead of the proprietary drivers on machines with less than 2gb ram. (I say this as I've been using Nouveau on a machine with 8gb ram.)