Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You nasty horrible terrible man you. Did you have to remind me of that? :-) Notebook was delivered 10 days ago on a Friday. That night I read the post about it on slashdot. I'm so pissed about this card that I'm tending to ignore it and hope the problems will go away (which they won't...) It's a mobo :-( That means a motherboard replacement and I don't know what Dell SA's position is on this. I'll have to check with the company account manager, but I think my only recourse is going to be a Keep the customer happy! internal POV. That and the fact that we buy truckloads of their servers, and a standard 40% discount across the board on all Dell products. Wish me luck -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com You always have the option to keep using KDE 3.5.x until your driver problems are resolved. KDE4.1 is nice, but not a must have to get work done in most cases. Good luck in any case! Dirk
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly
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. KDE has a big article about it in their techbase. Also: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=115916 (nVidia 8000/9000 Series Performance Issues) http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=117043 (Please stop that bashing...) http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=109990 (KDE4 almost unuseable) The effect is as if something is keeping the system very busy while input actions occur: It can take 30 secs to scroll slashdot's front page from top to bottom. yepp Any web page displayed in akregator inside kontact is even slower. yepp When kwallet pops up asking for the master password, it misses keystrokes when typing at normal speed. oh yes. Scrolling through a long mail in kmail is slightly slower than normal, but scrolling the same mail in a reply window is full speed. mhm Konqueror in split-window mode takes a few seconds to react when navigating through directories. yepp. Can anyone point me in the direction of a nice howto or the correct tools to figure out what's going on here? and typing something into a forum has several seconds of lag, desktop menu takes seconds to appear and more seconds to react to input, 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.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly
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
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: 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! so you don't know about the 'nvidia mobile gpus dying like flies' problem? http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/31/hp-pays-half-nvidia- problems just read the links in the text and below. Maybe you can still get a different one...?
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly
On Saturday 09 August 2008 21:03:37 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: 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! so you don't know about the 'nvidia mobile gpus dying like flies' problem? You nasty horrible terrible man you. Did you have to remind me of that? :-) Notebook was delivered 10 days ago on a Friday. That night I read the post about it on slashdot. I'm so pissed about this card that I'm tending to ignore it and hope the problems will go away (which they won't...) http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/31/hp-pays-half-nvidia- problems just read the links in the text and below. Maybe you can still get a different one...? It's a mobo :-( That means a motherboard replacement and I don't know what Dell SA's position is on this. I'll have to check with the company account manager, but I think my only recourse is going to be a Keep the customer happy! internal POV. That and the fact that we buy truckloads of their servers, and a standard 40% discount across the board on all Dell products. Wish me luck -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
