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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:54:23
Message-Id: 200808091054.15606.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly by Alan McKinnon
1 On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > This post might be a bit vague, sorry about that, I'm not sure where to
5 > start or how to explain it.
6 >
7 > New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, emerged kde-meta-4.1, but
8 > it renders exceptionally slowly on the screen when scrolling.
9
10 *lol* sorry but - yeah, this is a known problem with the nvidia 8XXX and 9XXX
11 series. Their drivers is broken.
12 KDE has a big article about it in their techbase. Also:
13 http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=115916
14 (nVidia 8000/9000 Series Performance Issues)
15
16 http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=117043
17 (Please stop that bashing...)
18
19 http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=109990
20 (KDE4 almost unuseable)
21
22
23 > The effect is
24 > as if something is keeping the system very busy while input actions occur:
25 >
26 > It can take 30 secs to scroll slashdot's front page from top to bottom.
27
28 yepp
29
30 > Any web page displayed in akregator inside kontact is even slower.
31
32 yepp
33
34 > When kwallet pops up asking for the master password, it misses keystrokes
35 > when typing at normal speed.
36
37 oh yes.
38
39 > Scrolling through a long mail in kmail is slightly slower than normal, but
40 > scrolling the same mail in a reply window is full speed.
41
42 mhm
43
44 > Konqueror in split-window mode takes a few seconds to react when navigating
45 > through directories.
46
47 yepp.
48
49 >
50 > Can anyone point me in the direction of a nice howto or the correct tools
51 > to figure out what's going on here?
52 >
53
54 and typing something into a forum has several seconds of lag, desktop menu
55 takes seconds to appear and more seconds to react to input, ....
56
57 see the links above. In short, you are screwed. There is no real remedy until
58 Nvidia fixes their broken drivers. Some stuff might help a bit - but most of
59 the time one thing gets slightly better and another one a lot worse. The only
60 good news: there is nothing wrong with your system.

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>