On Saturday 09 August 2008 10:54:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This post might be a bit vague, sorry about that, I'm not sure where to > > start or how to explain it. > > > > New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, emerged kde-meta-4.1, > > but it renders exceptionally slowly on the screen when scrolling. > > *lol* sorry but - yeah, this is a known problem with the nvidia 8XXX and > 9XXX series. Their drivers is broken.
So in other words, the short version: up creek, no paddle <sigh> [snip] > see the links above. In short, you are screwed. There is no real remedy > until Nvidia fixes their broken drivers. Some stuff might help a bit - but > most of the time one thing gets slightly better and another one a lot > worse. The only good news: there is nothing wrong with your system. Well that's good to know at least. The bummer is that I speced this laptop based on what I knew about nvidia's stuff. Nothing wrong in that, I was just 18 months out of date! -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
