On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:46 PM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Meanwhile I installed nouveau. The only difference I notice > is that now the 'visual bell' in xterm has become very slow > as well (to the point of being unusable), also locally. > I suspect you did not install it properly and were running in noaccel mode. But since you solved your ssh X forwarding problem, and are happy with nv, you can keep using that. If you are still curious about nouveau, you have to install nouveau-drm, xf86-video-nouveau (and nouveau-firmware if you have a GF8 or newer), edit xorg.conf , and then provide dmesg and Xorg logs.
