Heads-up, nVidia proprietary drivers with kde4 you may not need the options tweaks!!
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NoPat glxgears.
without nopat, normal xorg.conf (I thought this was the best I could get, lol)
glenn@GamesBox:~$ glxgears (25-01 15:26)
19355 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3870.968 FPS
20132 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4025.476 FPS
19408 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3881.587 FPS
19533 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3898.408 FPS
18845 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3768.947 FPS
18656 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3731.070 FPS
18741 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3748.169 FPS
18556 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3707.013 FPS
18442 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3688.389 FPS
18633 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3726.489 FPS
glenn@GamesBox:~$
With nopat kernel boot param. Nice improvement, but a bit jumpy/jittery
glenn@GamesBox:~$ glxgears (25-01 15:34)
29822 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5963.993 FPS
32055 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6410.964 FPS
28150 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5629.852 FPS
28034 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5606.756 FPS
33237 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6647.276 FPS
32036 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6407.151 FPS
29417 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5882.160 FPS
27982 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5596.388 FPS
28162 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5632.326 FPS
27887 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5577.261 FPS
glenn@GamesBox:~$ (25-01 15:37)
with most mods removed from xorg.conf without nopat
music@GamesBox:~$ glxgears
47174 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9434.789 FPS
44911 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8980.790 FPS
46844 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9361.882 FPS
47305 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9460.989 FPS
48113 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9622.578 FPS
47165 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9432.910 FPS
47554 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9510.770 FPS
47433 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9486.521 FPS
47155 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9430.994 FPS
47329 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9465.761 FPS
music@GamesBox:~$ (04-02 23:27)
Just goes to show ya, that real improvements are being made.
It has not fixed the resizing freeze, ie. grabing the corner of a window and draging to a different size.
But new stuff is comming out all the time.
By the time mandriva releases kde4.2 (not kde4.2mdv, which is 4.1.x in reality, see the errata of 2009.1rc) correct me if I'm wrong, please, I've read so much I might be confused,lol.
It should be better. I guess that means mid year release of Mandriva 2010.0.
Cheers, Glenn
Last edited by GlennsPref; 02-05-2009 at 06:12 AM.
Reason: remove some lines for clarity.
Glenn
I might have mentioned that I don't use compiz but use KDE4's own 3D effects.
Mine is a NVidea 8600M GT card on a Dell 1530XPS Laptop.
I have been running the 177.82 driver for a while now without any modification and it ran very well on KDE4.13, the official Mandriva release.
Hi, I thought I would test it by removing all compiz libs and packages.
It did not work too well.
It was like a transparent tartan across the screen following the mouse, large square blocks of trans. colours.
I'll give that link a look now.
Thanks for the tip.
Regards, Glenn
I am running MDV2009 PWP "586"(32bit)
Also your card should handle it with ease. The NVidea driver for that card might not be as optimised By Nvidea for KDE4 as mine is yet.
KDE4.2 is very good but its not an official release for 2009 (it's not an update through the repos). So expect a short freeze here and there but nothing major.
A lot more things are working now spatially for Laptop Users, but lots of applet are fairly barebone and haven't got the configuration ability as they used to have under KDE3.5
Of course this is not a Mandriva issue but KDE.
Known KDE Mandriva issues
GENERAL:
- Current phonon-gstreamer is crashing. Recommendation to install phonon-xine if not done automatically
- For heavily customized KDE 4.1.x, some configs can be lost, mostly visual
KOPETE:
- Old msn supported was kicked in favor of libmsn and migration is not done. Adding WLM/MSN account again will be required.
PIM SUITE ( KMAIL, KONTACT ):
- Akonadi will start and migrate pim resources for their database. Stop the process will require restart the program that started the process.
Helio Chissini de Castro <helio at mandriva dot com >
Mandriva KDE Team
KDE Project
As an example, I set up my i586 repositories using a KDE.org ftp mirror as follows:
I opened a terminal window, then escalated to root (su) and executed the following two commands:
Code:
urpmi.addmedia KDE-4.2.0 ftp://kde.mirrors.tds.net/pub/kde/stable/4.2.0/Mandriva/2009.0/RPMS/i586 with media_info
urpmi.addmedia KDE-4.2.0-noarch ftp://kde.mirrors.tds.net/pub/kde/stable/4.2.0/Mandriva/2009.0/RPMS/noarch with media_info
These commands added the two media sources (repositories) named KDE-4.2.0 and KDE-4.2.0-noarch
If you run the 64bit version of Mandriva, you should use the following commands:
Code:
urpmi.addmedia KDE-4.2.0 ftp://kde.mirrors.tds.net/pub/kde/stable/4.2.0/Mandriva/2009.0/RPMS/x86_64 with media_info
urpmi.addmedia KDE-4.2.0-noarch ftp://kde.mirrors.tds.net/pub/kde/stable/4.2.0/Mandriva/2009.0/RPMS/noarch with media_info
After adding these media sources, you will have to install KDE-4.2.0 with the following command:
Code:
urpmi task-kde4-4.2.0
From my personal experience (some five days of continuous use - e.g.: anout 14 hours per day and no shutdown), plasma does not crash at all (with KDE-4.1.3 plasma crashed regularly), and things work very well. I recommend installing KDE-4.2.0 without reservation (although your milage may vary).
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