From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PhsXF-0003ty-9o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:42:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96DE9E0687; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47768E0687 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so439598wyf.40 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:41:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=yoLTZU20a6zg2kAYcX0lsrlKzdurU3RyRx1ndLSIpd4=; b=LypUdV/d1JKmxMmP9ccVVD/5/jp+SuYajECP1QVrDgIVQX13+gSCX1GHOWLk/W1XHK CW1xhVvdkm4/95oxr4scfKBr0qTbzi5Y914VsKv0avuqvVO8EcUPOBUEAtThtqLR1wwS XmcSIvD14+dgiAhfdQIsiIFfIFEWKvTFbTrk4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=mTl/hHto/Jh8SSmkzFKlB0wCbUFxtfqUFbrpQWvAQ+0ZMcKmqvoe1r979jKbn1tPXQ /8CH1CILg/6aTkSrdriIT8pPcSUEZj/k1B2b5CKRScAQNOgoswfi3KRVCE/mou4pjXzx Pf1d16tb9IPQoxxi7k0Tl+XPGCERvpJPD4whs= Received: by 10.216.179.81 with SMTP id g59mr4393140wem.35.1295998878464; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:41:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-42-107.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.42.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h39sm3439829wes.29.2011.01.25.15.41.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:41:17 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia & nouveau on nVidia 8600M GT Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:41:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.37-ck; KDE/4.5.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201101260054.42611.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4D3F5CA3.3030700@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <4D3F5CA3.3030700@wonkology.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201101260141.48888.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9fb30f596fa37b60c89ebcdea759df95 Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Wednesday 26 January 2011, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > Using nvidia.ko, KDE with desktop effects enabled (especially translucent > > popup thumbnails on the task bar, and blur effect on) makes my notebook > > fan run all the time and kwin uses 20% cpu according to top. > > Does the blur effect do anything? With my ATI card, I did not notice a > change when enabling it, other than the CPU going really high. Yes, it has a visible effect. It's subtle so you have to look closely but it's there. The config popup for the effect has a slider for degree of effect but I didn't see that change much, as if the range from min to max was not wide enough -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com