Alan McKinnon wrote:
New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, emerged kde-meta-4.1, but it renders exceptionally slowly on the screen when scrolling. The effect is as if something is keeping the system very busy while input actions occur
Volker already mentioned the driver problem. If you wonder *why* the drivers are broken:
GeForce 8xxx and 9xxx series almost completely lack 2D acceleration hardware. The 3D engine of the hardware must be used to render 2D stuff (including video). NVidia has not really implemented this for their Linux drivers yet. Right now, GeForce 5, 6 and 7 series is much faster with 2D on linux than GeForce 8 and 9.
