On 13/10/11 14:21, Armelius Cameron wrote: > On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 05:34:13 AM Roderick Johnstone wrote: > >> On 08/10/11 03:22, Armelius Cameron wrote: > >> > On Friday, October 07, 2011 05:49:02 pm Roderick Johnstone wrote: > >> >> On 07/10/11 14:30, Armelius Cameron wrote: > >> >>> On Friday, October 07, 2011 04:35:57 AM Roderick Johnstone wrote: > >> >>>> On 06/10/11 22:32, Armelius Cameron wrote: > > >> > Hi Roderick, > >> > This is what I get from RPMFusion. Haven't checked if official > nvidia has > >> > any newer driver: > >> > > >> > $ rpm -q kmod-nvidia > >> > kmod-nvidia-280.13-2.fc14.1.x86_64 > >> > > >> > $ uname -a > >> > Linux simeis 2.6.35.14-96.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 1 11:59:56 UTC 2011 > >> > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > >> > >> That seems to be what we have. Sorry I can't be of further help. I'm not > >> able to reproduce the problem on the system that was showing it earlier > >> in the year. > > > Hi Roderick, > > Out of curiousity, what is your nvidia card ? I wonder if the problem is > with specific chipset / card. > > In general, X seems to use high CPU, and the desktop performance is > rather sluggish. Your workaround works for individual application, I > guess, but I'm not sure if there's a way to do that globally, or if it's > even advisable to do that. > > > Thanks. > > AC > Well, setting the environment variable in the login (or even system login) should make it work globally. I've moved hardware around a bit since we saw this, but I'm pretty sure the system that showed had an old Gigabyte Geforce 8600 card which shows up in lspci as: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1). Roderick _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org