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
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
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 ra
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
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 'desk
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 i
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
seri
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 s
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,
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 mi
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
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 t
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 architec
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
d
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
> >
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 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 ne
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 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
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
xorg-ser
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
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 OpenG
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
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?
>
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 a
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 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 :-) T
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
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