NVIDIA driver problem in openSUSE, System performance has been slow but
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Well about the drivers it has been mentioned above. Do some search to check which drivers are made for your card then look what version you have installed.
i want to show you two picture that i think could be useful. http://4ax.ir/images/nvidia1.png http://4ax.ir/images/nvidia2.png
in first picture that i captured it in My Computer, you can see that nvidia is 3D accelerator but in the second picture that i captured it in Kinfocenter it shows that 3D accelerator is unknown, also kernel module is unknown.
i think based on these pictures there is a problem, what do you think?
Hey man, sorry for being late, BUT... i have exactly the same issue on openSUSE 11.4. Using Gnome 2.32. I know exactly what you're talking about. It's not only Firefox, it's a few other apps that use GTK. For example, if you have several of them opened and you minimize them all one by one it would go kinda jerky sometimes. It seems as if it had some buffer somewhere and it's not properly flushed. I think it's Nvidia driver vs. Suse software. But the rest seems to be kinda fine, it would never occur on video playback for example. It's all about interface mostly. And in conclusion i can prove nvidia drivers glitchy, cause i have onboard ATI HD42000 and it DOES NOT act like this. Everything is smooth and no stuttering. And that videocard is weaker than Nvidia (which is GT240 by me), and yet it works just fine. Conclusion: Nvidia/Suse software bug or something. In addition to all this i have to say that on Debian 6.0 with the same Gnome 2 and the same Nvidia driver there was no such thing. So it's clearly only opensuse issue.
P. S. By the way, scrolling and everything on ATI is TWO TIMES faster ANYWAY. Even compared to the stage when you have no jerky scrolling on Nvidia, it's STILL faster. BUT.. only if you use free radeon driver, NOT fglrx. And even COMPIZ DOESN'T SLOW IT DOWN!!!
Hey man, sorry for being late, BUT... i have exactly the same issue on openSUSE 11.4. Using Gnome 2.32. I know exactly what you're talking about. It's not only Firefox, it's a few other apps that use GTK. For example, if you have several of them opened and you minimize them all one by one it would go kinda jerky sometimes. It seems as if it had some buffer somewhere and it's not properly flushed. I think it's Nvidia driver vs. Suse software. But the rest seems to be kinda fine, it would never occur on video playback for example. It's all about interface mostly. And in conclusion i can prove nvidia drivers glitchy, cause i have onboard ATI HD42000 and it DOES NOT act like this. Everything is smooth and no stuttering. And that videocard is weaker than Nvidia (which is GT240 by me), and yet it works just fine. Conclusion: Nvidia/Suse software bug or something. In addition to all this i have to say that on Debian 6.0 with the same Gnome 2 and the same Nvidia driver there was no such thing. So it's clearly only opensuse issue.
P. S. By the way, scrolling and everything on ATI is TWO TIMES faster ANYWAY. Even compared to the stage when you have no jerky scrolling on Nvidia, it's STILL faster. BUT.. only if you use free radeon driver, NOT fglrx. And even COMPIZ DOESN'T SLOW IT DOWN!!!
i also tested it in ubuntu and chakra, both of them had this problem but a little less than opensuse.
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