[xwin-discuss] Poor X11 performance in snv_91?

[John Martin]

Chris Ridd wrote:
> I'm noticing that my 2 machines running snv_91 appear to be running 
> quite slowly compared to snv_90.
>
> In particular, moving windows around on screen shows background windows 
> (eg gnome-terminal, firefox, thunderbird) repainting themselves very slowly.
>
> The desktop box has an Nvidia NV43GL [Quadro FX 540] card, and X is 
> using the nvidia driver.
>   
b91 upgraded the NVIDIA graphics driver from 169.12 to 173.14.05 (b90).
For the Quadro FX 540, you can try isolating the driver by removing the
packages NVDAgraphics and NVDAgraphicsr and installing the ones from
the b90 media.