Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver 177.80 + xorg 1.5.1 + Compiz

[Nicola <neodarklight@gmail.com>]

Hi! Good news for me and all nvidia + compiz fan!!
I have just upgraded my gentoo box to xorg 7.4 + nvidia 177.80 and 
compiz-fusion 0.7.8 and everyting is working like a charm!
Using kde3.5.9 or gnome everyting is fast and stable. 
The command
nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1
seem to help the resizing effect.
I have also tried kde4.1 with compiz and apart a little slowness moving around 
some plasmoid (like the Desktop plasmoid) I have seen many improvements. 

So for me the subject of this thread is closed.

To reply to Roy, I have no problem compiling mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725, for 
util-linux or encfs no ~x86 sorry.

Nicola

Alle giovedì 23 ottobre 2008, Roy Wright ha scritto:
> Nicola wrote:
> > Excuse me, could you write down your system configuration?
> >
> > Xorg version, Kernel version, Gcc, Nvidia-drivers, Hal version,
> > compiz-fusion version.
>
> Basically just a ~x86 system with dual monitors (twinview).
>
> royw-gentoo ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask/monolithic
> # packages that currently fail to compile
> =sys-fs/encfs-1.4.2
> =media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725
> =sys-apps/util-linux-2.14.1
>
> royw-gentoo ~ # eix -Ic xorg
>
> [I] app-doc/xorg-docs (1.4-r1@06/30/2008)
> [I] app-doc/xorg-sgml-doctools (1.2@09/14/2008)
> [I] x11-base/xorg-server (1.5.2@10/16/2008)
> [I] x11-base/xorg-x11 (7.4@10/06/2008)
> [I] x11-misc/xorg-cf-files (1.0.2@06/30/2008)
>
>
> royw-gentoo ~ # cat /proc/version
>
> Linux version 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 (root@royw-gentoo) (gcc version 4.3.1
> (Gentoo 4.3.1 p1.0) ) #7 SMP Thu Sep 25 03:52:13 CDT 2008
>
>
>
> royw-gentoo ~ # eix -Ice gcc
>
> [U] sys-devel/gcc (3.3.6-r1(3.3)@06/22/2008 4.3.1(4.3)@06/29/2008
>
> royw-gentoo ~ # eix -Ic nvidia
>
> [I] media-video/nvidia-settings (177.80@10/13/2008)
> [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers (177.80@10/19/2008)
>
>
> royw-gentoo ~ # eix -Ice hal
>
> [I] sys-apps/hal (0.5.11-r3@10/19/2008)
>
> compiz not installed.
>
> royw-gentoo ~ # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep -vP "^\s*#"
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier     "Layout0"
>     Screen      0  "Screen0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>     ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/freefonts"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
>     FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>     Load           "dbe"
>     Load           "extmod"
>     Load           "freetype"
>     Load           "glx"
>     Load           "xtrap"
>     Load           "wfb"
>     Load           "dri"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier     "Monitor0"
>     VendorName     "Unknown"
>     ModelName      "Unknown"
>     HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
>     VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
>     Option         "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier     "Device0"
>     Driver         "nvidia"
>     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
>     Option         "TwinView"
>     Option         "UseEdidFreqs" "true"
>     Option         "UseEDID" "true"
>     Option         "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-0, DFP-1"
>     Option         "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1920x1200, DFP-1: 1920x1200;
> DFP-0: 1920x1200, DFP-1: NULL; DFP-0: NULL, DFP-1: 1920x1200"
>     Option         "MonitorHorizSync"   "UseEdidFreqs"
>     Option         "MonitorVertRefresh" "UseEdidFreqs"
>     Option         "SecondMonitorHorizSync"   "UseEdidFreqs"
>     Option         "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "UseEdidFreqs"
>     Option         "TwinViewOrientation" "DFP-1 RightOf DFP-0"
>     Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
>     Option         "TripleBuffer"      "false"
>     Option         "RandRRotation"     "true"
>     Option         "RenderAccel"       "true"
>     Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
>     Option         "UseEvents"         "false"
>     Option         "PixmapCacheSize"   "2000000"
>     Option         "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
>     Option         "NvAGP" "0"  # disable AGP
>     Option         "DamageEvents" "1"
>     Option         "InitialPixmapPlacement" "2"
>     Option         "DPMS" "TRUE"
>     Option         "NoLogo" "1"  # disable drawing of NVidia logo
>     Option         "AllowIndirectPixmaps" "false"
>     Option         "AllowSHMPixmaps" "0"
>     Option         "Coolbits" "1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier     "Screen0"
>     Device         "Device0"
>     Monitor        "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     SubSection     "Display"
>     Depth           24
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Extensions"
>     Option         "Composite"   "enable"
> EndSection
>
>
> Also after kde startup running:
>
>   nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1
>
> still seems to help.
>
> HTH,
> Roy