On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Pico Geyer <picogeyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Pico Geyer <picogeyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi damjan, >>> >>> Here we go: >>> direct rendering: Yes >>> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301) >>> GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend, >>> >>> Pico >> >> You're using software rendering. No wonder it's slow. >> >> What's your video card? Are the drivers installed? >> How do you start gnome? startx? GDM? > > Oh, I didn't realize. > llvm-pipe = software rendering? > > I thought all I had to do was install xf86-video-nouveau. > I start GDM with the inittab method: > x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon > > The graphics card seems to be a nvidia NVS 3100M > Here's the line from lspci: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 > [NVS 3100M] [10de:0a6c] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > > Thanks for your help. > Pico Ok, so I installed nouveau-dri and the problem went away. I can't claim to understand this, I terminal output would only need xf86-video-nouveau. I thought nouveau-dri was mainly for opengl type acceleration. Is there something I can go read to clear this up? Thanks all for the help. Pico
