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 1PAlOo-0000OB-Bc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:25:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE7AEE07D6; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D6FE07D6 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywa6 with SMTP id 6so5049453ywa.40 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:24:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5d10fmU7vELaKEdtq1slLttZ3vsORs5XJ1S4OZX8NTs=; b=G+Ev8/QMBI2WCMQRHnalYVdTKiM4n9qE3+Q3HhVHOoaOK5lsIQ39o3eUdcQCZ8SGom MY9Aq50Zl+jZeWVT9kkIjiJQErQRrySWxDRJh5jqtrXTBZTeWU/vhEh6Qf5w9wWPuLMj 5OcIgip7Z/VbhoYgGSIT8dBS1pZ91aJ45+Xzo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=dSHC66YmBOTVWx4Qy/SMleh8qJ5QKCq/b+neEbuVAXCITK5QbtVNYCUlJuHq0jq6HG J/Bl9bJU1JY7A2eJlJk94JmsZdW7QHpgdDOPT2AR4AGEXtNCO5WeKicsqq1V+FqIsjqA 6MRUc/7pntk/8tyYkybJU3UojRLHx5y7RrrbI= 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 Received: by 10.239.155.135 with SMTP id i7mr701469hbc.109.1288106683484; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:24:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.239.151.147 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:24:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1288058698.8318.32.camel@localhost> References: <4CBD4C85.2010500@gmail.com> <4CC615FC.1040603@gmail.com> <1288058698.8318.32.camel@localhost> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:24:43 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Ns16IYVoOOM6Ej88e-7qtc3oc4I Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 78e4fbf8-906e-4458-80f6-1a3a1f613dff X-Archives-Hash: 2b4eaf36c91e69e82930ea5da10661a1 On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Iain Buchanan wro= te: > I'm having issues with the latest mix of nvidia-drivers, xorg, and > whatever else it might be! > > I'm getting bad performance when switching virtual dekstops and moving > windows and such. =A0GL screensavers seem to be ok though. Same here. My fast desktop with Core i7 920, Nvidia GX 240, has a slower KDE UI than my 6-year-old laptop that has AMD Athlon 3200+ and ATI Radeon Mobility 9700. Simply opening a konsole window on my desktop with compositing enabled can take 2-3 seconds, when it is instant on the laptop. People have been complaining about it for years, KDE and nvidia-drivers don't always get along with each other. The usual answer is that it works with Intel and ATI cards, and Nvidia's drivers are closed-source, so nobody can guess what the problem is and all we can do is hope Nvidia in their ivory tower can one day bless us with an update that makes things better. And then of course there are people who have Nvidia cards and everything works great and they don't know what the complainers are talking about. :) In my personal experience, on my Nvidia machine KDE 4.2 was the fastest, and it has gotten slower with each subsequent KDE release (with 4.5 being the worst one yet - so bad that I've disabled compositing entirely). Or maybe it has gotten slower with each nvidia-drivers release over the same period of time, I can't say. Maybe it is all a coincidence. However, on my old laptop with xorg radeon drivers, it has been getting faster with each KDE release, with KDE 4.5 is the fastest one yet. Both machines run latest everything on ~amd64. The only significant configuration difference between the two is nvidia-drivers vs radeon.