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 1PjQUT-00086e-O3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:10:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE159E0966; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:09:00 +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 9D7DCE0966 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so6074467wyf.40 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:08:59 -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=XB7Vti5UgB3u7ncyYBKcEwV8Sofn8jKnkIaEHFgVQkM=; b=kjLwYp9BeMDH4yQ8CRCbS8uApvvHiohq+30l6nO5ZFFUtPsKyGnaEv3157wq9Ouiup yf1S+HzHFIgaS5vDFOoC+TRe6ffHucY+sbtyBu8dXUvke8gpQms9noAUpXbDLY+Cu/tm +YlzoUW/dgPvGfIDxTMldoPbWmtI3kCo9UdNM= 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=CeQAWd80TlY1zsAcRW9fbYEWmNWS1u1JI9DVZuIOyeQoPHYzAPTMbTk3YXly32wEQr PezoSJfoLpEcrMA2154sNhcvXVgQX6SHwmLVkce9QOKlAIF+F84ejbbofcDzkM8YkOeX 6+VZEkfWUvrTwmZhGcnZI/mOV7Y0lXA5+gap0= Received: by 10.216.82.68 with SMTP id n46mr4566676wee.90.1296367739368; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:08:59 -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 r57sm648177wes.1.2011.01.29.22.08.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:08:58 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: nVidia & nouveau on nVidia 8600M GT Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:09:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37-ck; KDE/4.6.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <201101260054.42611.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201101260054.42611.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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: <201101300809.24355.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b90a0038b1a6155e551262e103c9b1df Happy news: Upgrading to KDE-4.6.0 fixed all the annoying issues below. Apparently, though unproven, at 00:54 on Wednesday 26 January 2011, Alan McKinnon did opine thusly: > Hi all, > > I'm not completely happy with my driver setup for an 8600M GT. > > 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. Oddly enough, the > fan runs faster with the screensaver on (displaying a single static jpeg) > and settles down when I unlock the screen. > > Nouveau is supposed to be useable (if not entirely stable yet) but it makes > the fan run flat out, notebook gets hot very quickly, top reckons kwin is > using 30% cpu even with all fancy effects off and gui events have a > noticeable lag to them - a short but very noticeable delay after mouse > clicks for example. It all looks very much like some process is blocking > as when things get around to happening, they happen quickly - like > glxgears spins it's wheels at a terrific rate and very little gets in it's > way once it starts. > > I reckon it should not be this way and I have yet again done something > stupid. I've scoured the net and forums for howtos but found nothing and > this has been going on for at least 5 kernel versions. > > Are there any known issues that cause things like this that I've > overlooked? I strongly suspect it's not an obscure detail peculiar to me, > more like I absolutely need kernel feature X for best results. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com