Re: [opensuse] 11.3 and very slow nvidia performance

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 09:47, Frans de Boer wrote:
My solution for the nVidia/11.3 sluggishness problem was to bump up to
the 2.6.35 kernel.  Someone else has had success with booting with
vmalloc=192M.  I haven't tried the vmalloc boot parameter, but moving
to 2.6.35 made a HUGE difference in my KDE4 performance.

You can get the 2.6.35 kernel from this repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_11.3/

C.

This sounds like the problem the kernel developers had before with the
2.6.34-git8 and up. That's why they removed the git versions for 2.6.34,
incorporated it in the 2.6.35 RC1 version and corrected the problem
there. I have problems with 2.6.34-12 too with or without nvidia drivers
in that the system is always unresponsive when switching desktops..
There are more problems with 11.3 so I have gone back to the 11.2
version awaiting the 11.4 version to correct all the quirks.


Just curious... why revert to 11.2 instead of simply using the 2.6.35
kernel in 11.3? Overall, once I "fixed" the kernel/Xorg issue and
sorted the nVidia binary driver fight with Nouveau, 11.3 has been a
nice upgrade over 11.2. I'm not facing any other significant issues,
and it's generally better than 11.2. To be honest, if you wait on the
next release to fix all the issues in the current release, you're
going to be waiting a long time. Each release has had its quirks,
oddities, and miscellaneous warts.

I'm running 11.3 with KDE4.4.95 from Factory, kernel 2.6.35 from
kernel head, and it's nice... very nice. Fast boot, video works
well.. it's quite a nice release. I'm able to use it for my work on a
daily basis (ie actually be productive with my job) and do leisure
things like gaming (Wine 1.3 is working VERY well these days).

KDE4.4.95 is working very well (two minor bugs I've bumbled on so
far... one in dbus which caused problems with Dolphin... fixed by
installing latest dbus.... and one in the KUpdateApplet... still not
fixed).

C.
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