[gentoo-user] nVidia nouveau on nVidia 8600M GT

2011-01-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, I'm not completely happy with my driver setup for an 8600M GT. Using nvidia.ko, KDE with desktop effects enabled (especially translucent popup thumbnails on the task bar, and blur effect on) makes my notebook fan run all the time and kwin uses 20% cpu according to top. Oddly enough,

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia nouveau on nVidia 8600M GT

2011-01-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Using nvidia.ko, KDE with desktop effects enabled (especially translucent popup thumbnails on the task bar, and blur effect on) makes my notebook fan run all the time and kwin uses 20% cpu according to top. Does the blur effect do anything? With my ATI card, I did not

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia nouveau on nVidia 8600M GT

2011-01-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Wednesday 26 January 2011, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon writes: Using nvidia.ko, KDE with desktop effects enabled (especially translucent popup thumbnails on the task bar, and blur effect on) makes my notebook fan run all the time