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[Vlado Plaga <vlado@xxxxxxx>]

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://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09-driver.html

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-Linux-x86_64-275.09.run --uninstall

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?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/760632

Title:
  Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system