Re: KDE + X + Nvidia problems

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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
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