On Friday 15 August 2008 15:41:04 Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Oddly enough, 3D is very very snappy. It's the 2D
stuff that cripples the
performance, and on a desktop, 2D is exactly what
you want.
AFAIK the problem is that the 8XXX series
On Saturday 16 August 2008 03:57:42 b.n. wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto:
In short: all 8XXX chips are bad. Because of the
thermal environment
laptops are on a different place of the bell curve
than desktops. Laptops
with nvidia graphic are failing left and right. Whole
series of
On Samstag, 16. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 15 August 2008 15:41:04 Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Oddly enough, 3D is very very snappy. It's the 2D
stuff that cripples the
performance, and on a desktop, 2D is exactly
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
I don't use compiz ;)
and people have reported slowdowns even with kde3.5.9 - with 4.1 it is just
much severe. And when I say 'severe' I talk about lagging for several seconds
between 'key pressed' and 'sign appears on screen'. Or 'mouse button pressed'
and
On Saturday 16 August 2008 23:40:21 Dale wrote:
I use 3.5.9 and with a newer kernel, I get the same
slowdowns. Could
this me something to do with the kernel? I'm using
2.6.23 but the
2.6.25 kernel does this slow thing. It started in
2.6.24 range.
what video card do you have?
--
alan
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 16 August 2008 23:40:21 Dale wrote:
I use 3.5.9 and with a newer kernel, I get the same
slowdowns. Could
this me something to do with the kernel? I'm using
2.6.23 but the
2.6.25 kernel does this slow thing. It started in
2.6.24
On Sonntag, 17. August 2008, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 16 August 2008 23:40:21 Dale wrote:
I use 3.5.9 and with a newer kernel, I get the same
slowdowns. Could
this me something to do with the kernel? I'm using
2.6.23 but the
2.6.25 kernel does this slow
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag, 17. August 2008, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 16 August 2008 23:40:21 Dale wrote:
I use 3.5.9 and with a newer kernel, I get the same
slowdowns. Could
this me something to do with the kernel? I'm using
Hi all,
Maybe someone here has seen this before:
amd64
2.6.26-gentoo
KDE-4.1
nVidia 8600M GT
nvidia-drivers-177.13 (latest unstable)
nvidia OpenGL
xorg-server-1.4.99.906
Yes, it's bleeding-edge :-) This is in an effort to get some
performance out
of what should be a very decent video card. It
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe someone here has seen this before:
amd64
2.6.26-gentoo
KDE-4.1
nVidia 8600M GT
nvidia-drivers-177.13 (latest unstable)
nvidia OpenGL
xorg-server-1.4.99.906
Yes, it's bleeding-edge :-) This is in an
On Friday 15 August 2008 09:12:06 Dirk Uys wrote:
I don't know about the bug, but screen can safe you the hassle of
having to open all your sessions again?
Screen is indeed god's gift to sysadmins, it's almost as useful as bash :-)
I do use it a lot, and for more and better reasons than just
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 15 August 2008 09:12:06 Dirk Uys wrote:
I don't know about the bug, but screen can safe you the hassle of
having to open all your sessions again?
Screen is indeed god's gift to sysadmins, it's almost as useful
On Friday 15 August 2008 09:29:42 Dirk Uys wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Friday 15 August 2008 09:12:06 Dirk Uys wrote:
I don't know about the bug, but screen can safe you the hassle of
having to open all your sessions again?
Screen
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe someone here has seen this before:
amd64
2.6.26-gentoo
KDE-4.1
nVidia 8600M GT
nvidia-drivers-177.13 (latest unstable)
nvidia OpenGL
xorg-server-1.4.99.906
any reason why you use an unreleased X? There are no new features
On Friday 15 August 2008 10:26:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe someone here has seen this before:
amd64
2.6.26-gentoo
KDE-4.1
nVidia 8600M GT
nvidia-drivers-177.13 (latest unstable)
nvidia OpenGL
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 15 August 2008 10:26:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe someone here has seen this before:
amd64
2.6.26-gentoo
KDE-4.1
nVidia 8600M GT
Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
On Friday 15 August 2008 10:26:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe someone here has seen this before:
amd64
2.6.26-gentoo
KDE-4.1
nVidia 8600M GT
nvidia-drivers-177.13 (latest unstable)
nvidia OpenGL
On Friday 15 August 2008 11:51:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 15 August 2008 10:26:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
any reason why you use an unreleased X? There are no new features or
improvements. And KDE works fine with 1.4
On Friday 15 August 2008 12:49:26 b.n. wrote:
Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
This is the second thread in a few days that reports problems with
nVidia cards.
Owning a 3rd generation Macbook Pro (nVidia Geforce 8600M GT) with
Gentoo on, I'm a bit worried. I never noticed significant problems on
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 15 August 2008 11:51:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 15 August 2008 10:26:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
any reason why you use an unreleased X? There are no new
Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
On Friday 15 August 2008 12:49:26 b.n. wrote:
Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
This is the second thread in a few days that reports problems with
nVidia cards.
Owning a 3rd generation Macbook Pro (nVidia Geforce 8600M GT) with
Gentoo on, I'm a bit worried. I never noticed
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 15 August 2008 12:49:26 b.n. wrote:
Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
This is the second thread in a few days that reports problems with
nVidia cards.
Owning a 3rd generation Macbook Pro (nVidia Geforce 8600M GT) with
Gentoo on,
On Friday 15 August 2008 14:19:14 b.n. wrote:
Oh s**t. Thank you. Go figure I bought that MBP last year also because
of its nVidia card...
I feel your pain, I'm in exactly the same position. I specifically bought this
laptop because of the nVidia card and my bad experiences with ATI binary
On Friday 15 August 2008 14:14:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
that their drivers for the 8XXX and 9XXX series suck (on win and lin) is
only one of their problems.
I wasn't aware that there was a problem with the windows drivers.
I thought the suckiness on linux came mostly from the X
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Oddly enough, 3D is very very snappy. It's the 2D stuff that cripples the
performance, and on a desktop, 2D is exactly what you want.
AFAIK the problem is that the 8XXX series doesn't really have 2d hardware
anymore - everything is done in the
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Oddly enough, 3D is very very snappy. It's the 2D stuff that cripples the
performance, and on a desktop, 2D is exactly what you want.
AFAIK the problem is that the 8XXX series doesn't really have 2d hardware
Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto:
In short: all 8XXX chips are bad. Because of the thermal environment laptops
are on a different place of the bell curve than desktops. Laptops with nvidia
graphic are failing left and right. Whole series of HP, Dell, Asus, laptops
are walking ghosts. Desktops
On Samstag, 16. August 2008, b.n. wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto:
In short: all 8XXX chips are bad. Because of the thermal environment
laptops are on a different place of the bell curve than desktops. Laptops
with nvidia graphic are failing left and right. Whole series of HP, Dell,
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