From kde-devel Mon Sep 22 13:29:19 2008 From: Kris Moore Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:29:19 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Debugging plasma / KIO slowdown? Message-Id: <48D79DAF.4010007 () pcbsd ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=122209027806419 > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:43:35 -0400 > From: "Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper" > Subject: Re: Debugging plasma / KIO slowdown? > To: kde-devel@kde.org > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On 9/19/08, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> (snippity) >> no, it turns it that it was (wait for it .. wait for it ..) the binary >> nvidia >> driver. >> >> *sigh* >> > > ugh. I'm seeing the same problems here, on a thinkpad t61 laptop and the > proprietary nvidia drivers. is there a workaround or solution for this? > > as an aside, the latest beta (177.76) seems to make this a little better, > but the problem is still very noticeably there. =:( > The only workaround / solution I've found is to not use the nvidia drivers at the moment :( As soon as we switch to vesa / nv, the problem goes away, and the desktop feels super responsive again. We're using the 177.70 beta driver on FreeBSD, and so far I haven't been able to find any magic combination of settings which fixes the slow plasma / desktop response times. -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software http://www.pcbsd.com >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<