Sean Whalen <whalens...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > I recently made the switch from Kubuntu 11.10 to Debain stable. > Everything was running very well until I installed the Nvidia module > "the Debian way". Then, the system became highly unstable. I noticed > that the system would become very sluggish during simple tasks The > most repeatable example of this is the slow rate at which the > background fades when calling gksu. Additionally, there is a visible > lag in the redrawing of windows when applications are minimized or > restored. interestingly, video from YouTube seemed to be fluid. > > The situation was annoying, but not unbearable, until the entire > system began to freeze. It seems that this may be related in some way > to bug #664261. My situation differs in that I used the version from > backports (280.13.really.275.36-1) in order to achieve compatibility > with my GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB (Fermi) GPU, it's worth noting that it > did not experience any stability issues with the Ubuntu distribution > of the Nvidia module 280.13 when I used Kubuntu 11.10. > > What should I do at this point? I'm tempted use the Nvidia installer, > but I'm concerned that it might unnecessarily dirty my system. Is it > possible to cleanly switch from the Nvidia installer to the Debian > way? > > I'm also not sure whether I should report this as a separate bug, or > as an addition to the one mentioned above. Any thoughts would be > helpful. >
The nouveau driver is working well on my machine, maybe you'll do better to use it too. -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120416075529.GA11928@radhesyama