[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Filipe Sousa
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Filipe Sousa wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Also the 7300 is a bad example - it is a very slow card. Not really. It's at least 5 times as powerful as my old Matrox Mystique from the year 1995 (I think). But the Matrox is faster with 2D. It's not the hardware that is slow. Quire the contrary. It's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 09 August 2008 20:40:20 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Also the 7300 is a bad example - it is a very slow card. Not really. It's at least 5 times as powerful as my old Matrox Mystique from the year 1995 (I think). But the Matrox is faster with 2D. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Also the 7300 is a bad example - it is a very slow card. Not really. It's at least 5 times as powerful as my old Matrox Mystique from the year 1995 (I think). But the Matrox is faster with 2D. It's not the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Filipe Sousa
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Filipe Sousa wrote: from the threads I posted it should be clear that kde4/qt4 are not the only ones affected. gtk is slow too. So is firefox. On Intel integrated graphics, qt4/kde4 is fast and fluid. That should give someone food for