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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:58:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g7k0oe$52o$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808090959.36317.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, emerged kde-meta-4.1, but it 
> renders exceptionally slowly on the screen when scrolling. The effect is as if 
> something is keeping the system very busy while input actions occur

Volker already mentioned the driver problem.  If you wonder *why* the 
drivers are broken:

GeForce 8xxx and 9xxx series almost completely lack 2D acceleration 
hardware.  The 3D engine of the hardware must be used to render 2D stuff 
(including video).  NVidia has not really implemented this for their 
Linux drivers yet.  Right now, GeForce 5, 6 and 7 series is much faster 
with 2D on linux than GeForce 8 and 9.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-09 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-09  7:59 [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly Alan McKinnon
2008-08-09  8:54 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-09 18:19   ` Alan McKinnon
2008-08-09 19:03     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-09 19:14       ` Alan McKinnon
2008-08-11  8:51         ` Dirk Uys
2008-08-09 11:58 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2008-08-09 17:02   ` [gentoo-user] " Filipe Sousa
2008-08-09 17:56     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-09 18:40       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-08-09 19:02         ` Alan McKinnon
2008-08-09 19:14         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-09 19:46       ` Filipe Sousa

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