Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 iul 12, 14:43:54, Dan Serban wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:33:31 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > My bad, the guy that made that statement is not the guy at the top of the > page and missed that comment. The reality is that it seems that this > affects more than the singular nvidia

Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-16 Thread Dan Serban
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:33:31 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 15 iul 12, 23:51:15, Dan Serban wrote: > > > > No real input from the developer, and no real action has been taken. > > The developer has quite clearly (IMO) stated his view/intentions[1]. > Seems quite reasonable to me given th

Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 15 iul 12, 23:51:15, Dan Serban wrote: > > No real input from the developer, and no real action has been taken. The developer has quite clearly (IMO) stated his view/intentions[1]. Seems quite reasonable to me given that: - wheezy is (still in) testing - the issue is related to the propr

Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-15 Thread Dan Serban
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:52:01 -0500 hvw59601 wrote: > Dan Serban wrote: > > The bug is reported here: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616308 > > > > Reading through that bug report, it seems that this has been an issue > > for some time, a patch is provided and I have

Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-15 Thread hvw59601
Dan Serban wrote: For those unaware, running wheezy or squeeze + backports while using the Nvidia binary blob (and in some cases nouveau) drawing _anything_ in X is painful, it can take seconds to respond to a mouse click, or minimizing/maximizing a window. Scrolling speed is horrendous as well.

Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-15 Thread Dan Serban
For those unaware, running wheezy or squeeze + backports while using the Nvidia binary blob (and in some cases nouveau) drawing _anything_ in X is painful, it can take seconds to respond to a mouse click, or minimizing/maximizing a window. Scrolling speed is horrendous as well. For the months tha