Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 09 August 2008 10:54:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This post might be a bit vague, sorry about that, I'm not sure where to
> > start or how to explain it.
> >
> > New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, emerged kde-meta-4.1,
> > but it renders exceptionally slowly on the screen when scrolling.
>
> *lol* sorry but - yeah, this is a known problem with the nvidia 8XXX and
> 9XXX series. Their drivers is broken.

So in other words, the short version:

up creek, no paddle

<sigh>

[snip]

> see the links above. In short, you are screwed. There is no real remedy
> until Nvidia fixes their broken drivers. Some stuff might help a bit - but
> most of the time one thing gets slightly better and another one a lot
> worse. The only good news: there is nothing wrong with your system.

Well that's good to know at least. The bummer is that I speced this laptop 
based on what I knew about nvidia's stuff. Nothing wrong in that, I was just 
18 months out of date!

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