Gnome 2.2 slowness

xmart · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 11

I've recently emerged Gnome 2.2 and xfree 4.2.99.4 and my desktop now looks really gorgeous. But slower than before. In fact the slowness is unbereable in three cases:

In all cases cursor blocks an all freezes while the operation completes.

What the hell is that? My gnome 2.0 xfree 4.2.1 worked really smooth. Where is the problem gnome, X, both, metacity...?

xavi

Yeric · Apprentice Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 150

What video card are you using? and what drivers in XF86Config ?

xmart · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 11

I have a geforce mx200 with last nvidia drivers and "nvidia" as driver in XF86Config.

Version of nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx is 1.0.4191-r1. By the way, it was updated when gnome 2.2 was installed.

xavi

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

Try putting Option "RenderAccel" (under server flags)
in your XF86Config since this option was turned off in the 4xxx versions by default

xmart · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 11

RenderAccel doesn't have any noticeable effect. Anyway, doesn't seem an X problem becauseI've tried KDE and works well. It's a gnome 2.2 problem.

xavi

Lin_Matt · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 8:56 pm Post subject:

It's actually a NVidia driver problem. I had the same problem with the 4191 drivers, but everything cleared up with the old 3123 version. I'm just waiting for the next version from NVidia to clear this up...

xmart · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 11

Well, I can confirm that the problem is nvidia driver. I've unmerged the last (4191) version an emerged 3123 and now it's ok.

Thanks!

xavi