Bugzilla – Bug 116328
nvidia driver slow + long blanking
Last modified: 2005-10-11 10:42:03 UTC
Moving windows (which windowmanager doesn't matter, so I assume xorg related) takes a lot of cpu, and is very slow. It doesn't really matter or we're using the nvidia driver or not, the nvidia driver is just a very little bit quicker. Also: sometimes the system with the binary nvidia driver seems to freeze while starting the machine (looks like bug 113203), but if you just wait some minutes it's just starting. # hwinfo --gfxcard 19: PCI(AGP) 105.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.277] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_111 Unique ID: ul7N.+rCwNGvtkBE Parent ID: vSkL.TWicxR2Z3DA SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:05.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:05.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "nVidia GeForce2 MX 100/200" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x0111 "GeForce2 MX 100/200" Revision: 0xb2 Driver: "nvidia" Memory Range: 0xea000000-0xeaffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff (rw,prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xeb000000-0xeb00ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 10 (40273 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000111sv00000000sd00000000bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv Extensions: Options: sw_cursor Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nvidia 3D Support: yes Color Depths: 16 Extensions: Options: Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=yes, active=unknown Attached to: #11 (PCI bridge) Primary display adapter: #19 Reading the bugreport 113203, several things are tried, is there something available like the most optimal settings for this card, or a way to do more debugging ? I have no idea or this is a doub. report, but there seems to be differences in experience.
Created attachment 49513 [details] output nvidia-bug-report
Bug 113203 is about freezes with the "nv" driver, not with the "nvidia" driver. I couln't find anything obvious wrong when looking at the results of nvidia-bug-report.sh. You probably don't need any more the "sw_cursor" option. At lease not with the "nvidia" driver. Maybe Andy has some ideas ...
I don't see anything obviously wrong in the log. Could you provide some more details on the behavior you are seeing with moving windows? How slow is slow? What window managers are you testing with with? What are some specific reproduction steps? Thanks.
how slow is slow... the cpu is going higher and higher, sometimes to 90% ... moving the windows: you'll get a lot of windows (about 8) which are coming behind, before the dissapear. Tested with Gnome, Windowmaker and fvwm2 nothing specific, just move windows, only nautilus or a terminal is enough
I have an Nvidia card as well (Geforce 6600 PCIe), and on my new 3.6GHz Prescott P4 system, everything is dog slow. It's about comparable to an older version of SuSE on my old 300 MHz Celeron system. My Windows XP laptop (Centrino) is far faster for everything. Are the folks at Novell doing any kind of testing at all on their OSes on modern equipment?
the bug doesn't appear in 10 final, so i think you can close the ticket :)