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On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> This post might be a bit vague, sorry about that, I'm not sure where to |
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> start or how to explain it. |
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> New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, emerged kde-meta-4.1, but |
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> it renders exceptionally slowly on the screen when scrolling. |
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*lol* sorry but - yeah, this is a known problem with the nvidia 8XXX and 9XXX |
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series. Their drivers is broken. |
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KDE has a big article about it in their techbase. Also: |
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http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=115916 |
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(nVidia 8000/9000 Series Performance Issues) |
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http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=117043 |
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(Please stop that bashing...) |
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http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=109990 |
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(KDE4 almost unuseable) |
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> The effect is |
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> as if something is keeping the system very busy while input actions occur: |
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> It can take 30 secs to scroll slashdot's front page from top to bottom. |
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yepp |
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> Any web page displayed in akregator inside kontact is even slower. |
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yepp |
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> When kwallet pops up asking for the master password, it misses keystrokes |
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> when typing at normal speed. |
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oh yes. |
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> Scrolling through a long mail in kmail is slightly slower than normal, but |
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> scrolling the same mail in a reply window is full speed. |
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mhm |
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> Konqueror in split-window mode takes a few seconds to react when navigating |
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> through directories. |
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yepp. |
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> Can anyone point me in the direction of a nice howto or the correct tools |
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> to figure out what's going on here? |
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and typing something into a forum has several seconds of lag, desktop menu |
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takes seconds to appear and more seconds to react to input, .... |
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see the links above. In short, you are screwed. There is no real remedy until |
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Nvidia fixes their broken drivers. Some stuff might help a bit - but most of |
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the time one thing gets slightly better and another one a lot worse. The only |
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good news: there is nothing wrong with your system. |