2010/1/25 Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:04 AM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> It is the 'ssh -X zita2 emacs' that is very slow. >> Running emacs locally is perfectly OK. >> The previous install was F9, it used nv, and >> the same 'ssh -X zita2 emacs' worked perfectly. >> Nothing has changed on zita2. >> >> As far as I can see, the Arch installation tries to enable >> 3D-acceleration by installing 'drm'. I don't want it. How >> can it be disabled ? >> > > It seems I read your mail too quickly. > But if only apps through ssh are slow, why would you suspect video > driver, and not network / ssh speed ? > > And why would 3d acceleration make your X-forwarded 2d app slow ? > > By the way, you have no 3d-accel at all with nv, just very basic 2d. > And afaik drm does not do anything on its own. It just provides the > core of graphic drivers, like nouveau for instance. nv does not use it > either. > And there is no reason for using nv nowadays, nouveau does better in > every aspect ! and nouveau does rely on drm so you will want to keep > that. > > That said you can blacklist whatever you want, just have a look at /etc/rc.conf. > You could also try blacklisting your network driver, I am sure it will > make everything much faster :) This is what has always happened ever since I started living on mobile broadband, and with a local ISP that has a fat 12Mbps (100 at "partner sites") pipe but latencies at which you can never win an online gameplay. Load up a live Fedora and see if you can't reproduce this, in which case we would have something to work on. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
