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I was excited to finally get working KDE, with transparent terminals and with OpenGL, when I read about the new NVIDIA Beta drivers (275.09). Alas, it does not work for me. I installed the driver from:
http://
Installation already was painful: I had to uninstall the distribution packages (nvidia-current) first, and to blacklist the open source driver's kernel module "nouveau". It felt like it took a few seconds longer before X crashed, when I resized my konsole, but it still just took seconds. This is a "GeForce 9400M", by the way.
So I decided I'd rather have no 3D than having to continue using Gnome, but uninstalling nvidia, and reactivating nouveau also was a bit tricky.
# ./NVIDIA-
Now first KDE did not start any more, because some file was missing (as kwin reported when trying to start it from gnome). The following fixed it for me:
# aptitude reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx
@alvin: you are right, there are a lot of useless comments in this bug tracker. But I don't agree with your "You should rather blame the 'fixed release date' policy." (instead of NVIDIA) - in the end the NVIDIA driver is not really part of the distribution at all. It even works well with Ubuntu's default desktops (I used it with Gnome for several weeks without problems), so throwing it out of the "software center" just because of the KDE issue would have been a bit harsh... maybe a "conflicts" in the "konsole" package would have been useful?