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On Saturday 09 August 2008 10:54:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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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, |
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> > but 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 |
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> 9XXX series. Their drivers is broken. |
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So in other words, the short version: |
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up creek, no paddle |
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<sigh> |
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[snip] |
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> see the links above. In short, you are screwed. There is no real remedy |
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> until Nvidia fixes their broken drivers. Some stuff might help a bit - but |
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> most of the time one thing gets slightly better and another one a lot |
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> worse. The only good news: there is nothing wrong with your system. |
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Well that's good to know at least. The bummer is that I speced this laptop |
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based on what I knew about nvidia's stuff. Nothing wrong in that, I was just |
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18 months out of date! |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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