On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:50 PM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > Today I installed Arch on my desktop which previously had Fedora. > All works well except > > ssh -X zita2 emacs > > where zita2 is my laptop. > > It works, but it is ex tre me ly slow, I can count > the lines being displayed when scrolling a page. > This used to work perfectly before. > Other apps doing quite intensive X work don't seem > to be affected. OTOH, the emacs running on the laptop > is of course the same as before. > > Video driver is 'nv', but it doesn't show up in lsmod. > Some others do: 'drm' and 'ttm' which I haven't seen > before. As far as I was able to find out, 'drm' is > related to 3D-acceleration. I don't need nor want this, > and I'm suspecting it could be related to the problem > I'm seeing. > > Any hints/help will be appreciated ! > Are you sure you were using nv on fedora ? nv is indeed extremely slow. Fedora 11 apparently used nouveau as default : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauAsDefault You can also install it easily on Arch, just have a look at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau
