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 1PhsKz-0002Hf-Ff for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:30:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22F7CE0BB4; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E1FE0BB4 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:28:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.43] (p5791070B.dip.t-dialin.net [87.145.7.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ED39139A018 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:28:38 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4D3F5CA3.3030700@wonkology.org> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:28:35 +0100 From: Alex Schuster User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia & nouveau on nVidia 8600M GT References: <201101260054.42611.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201101260054.42611.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 95950f86e2a7e5046c5377bc2889e4a1 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. Wonko