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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, emerged kde-meta-4.1, but it |
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> renders exceptionally slowly on the screen when scrolling. The effect is as if |
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> something is keeping the system very busy while input actions occur |
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Volker already mentioned the driver problem. If you wonder *why* the |
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drivers are broken: |
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GeForce 8xxx and 9xxx series almost completely lack 2D acceleration |
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hardware. The 3D engine of the hardware must be used to render 2D stuff |
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(including video). NVidia has not really implemented this for their |
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Linux drivers yet. Right now, GeForce 5, 6 and 7 series is much faster |
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with 2D on linux than GeForce 8 and 9. |