[ale] X and desktop redraws

[Keith Morris]

If you are using the newest nvidia drivers and are using Gnome as your 
desktop your performance will be HORRIBLE!  3D performance will rock but 
2D will be dismal.

This is pretty well discussed on the nvidia Linux forum.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=5cff9f8ff787a948cee3cc7861be9e80&threadid=4997

I reinstalled the older drivers and performance was back to normal.

here's a link to the older drivers

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-3123

hope that helps...

Keith

>>On my new laptop, I've noticed that if I drag a window along the desktop,
>>the CPU usage spikes and redraws go very slowly.  Moving windows seems to
>>take a lot of CPU power.  In addition, some of the screensavers redraw
>>sluggishly as well (can see refresh lines).
>>
>>This is a P4 2.0 ghz, Geforce 4 32 mb with the nvidia driver installed, so
>>it's got the muscle.  My work machine (P4 1 ghz) doesn't have this problem
>>with the same background display, and it's only got a 16 mb integrated
>>intel chipset.
>>
>>Is there some X setting I need to modify to remedy this?  Could this be
>>the result of a buggy driver?  What else should I investigate?
>>
>>Also, could the Dell Inspiron i8200 owners verify if this happens on your
>>machine?
>>
>>Thanks guys.
>>
>>John
>>
>>
>>
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