On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:48:48PM +1000, Sunnz wrote: > I am just wondering if the NV driver for nVidia cards are supposed to > be slow, for just the desktop? That is, no 3D. > > I am currently running Xfce Desktop on 4.2-release, just surfing the > web and stuff, nothing heavy... and Desktop switching, maximising > windows, and stuff takes unusually long time... of course I would not > expect the same performance with the binary blob driver on Linux, but > by a long time I mean it takes 5 - 30 seconds "freeze" to do > anything... maximising a window takes 5 - 10 seconds, while switching > desktop spaces takes 20 - 30 seconds, depends on how many windows are > on that space. > > For non-drawing purpose, it is all very fast, minimise is very quick, > switching to an empty desktop space is an instant. So I guess it may > be the window manager, xfwm4? > > So yea I am wondering if this is normal for xfce on nVidia cards... > like if it is xfce's problem, or X Windows, or driver??
well, WHICH nVidia card? don't you think that might matter? any clues in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log? the following machine uses the nv driver, and I don't see what you describe under either blackbox or kde. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org OpenBSD 4.3-current (GENERIC) #109: Sun Apr 13 14:02:25 PDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/src/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 1.84 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real mem = 536375296 (511MB) avail mem = 510562304 (486MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 09/24/03, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfa0e0, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0120 (37 entries) bios0: vendor Award Software International, Inc. version "F8" date 09/24/2003 bios0: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-7VT600 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 (slowidle) apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xc474 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfc3c0/176 (9 entries) pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 10 11 pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:17:0 ("VIA VT82C596A ISA" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x9400 0xcc000/0x8000! cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8377 PCI" rev 0x80 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8377 AGP" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA Vanta" rev 0x15 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) agp0 at vga1: v3, aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x10000000 skc0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Linksys EG1032" rev 0x12, Yukon (0x1): irq 11 sk0 at skc0 port A: address 00:0c:41:1a:50:06 eephy0 at sk0 phy 0: Marvell 88E1011 Gigabit PHY, rev. 3 cmpci0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "C-Media Electronics CMI8738/C3DX Audio" rev 0x10: irq 10 audio0 at cmpci0 opl at cmpci0 not configured mpu at cmpci0 not configured bktr0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "Brooktree BT878" rev 0x11: irq 11 bktr0: ATI TV-Wonder/VE, Philips NTSC tuner. "Brooktree BT878 Audio" rev 0x11 at pci0 dev 13 function 1 not configured uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x80: irq 5 uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x80: irq 11 uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x80: irq 11 ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 3 "VIA VT6202 USB" rev 0x82: irq 10 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "VIA EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 viapm0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8235 ISA" rev 0x00 iic0 at viapm0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 512MB DDR SDRAM non-parity PC2700CL2.5 pciide0 at pci0 dev 17 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x06: ATA133, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD600LB-00DNA0> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 57240MB, 117229295 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <SONY, CD-RW CRX175E2, S002> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 rl0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 11, address 00:0d:61:c1:58:0d rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal PHY usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at mainbus0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 it0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: IT8705F rev 0x02, EC port 0x290 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec biomask ef65 netmask ef65 ttymask ffe7 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support rum0 at uhub0 port 1 "Cisco-Linksys Compact Wireless-G USB Adapter" rev 2.00/0.01 addr 2 rum0: MAC/BBP RT2573 (rev 0x2573a), RF RT2528, address 00:18:39:12:12:4a softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
