Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:16:05 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Very bad performance with nvidia-driver Message-ID: <iph5j6$pto$1@dough.gmane.org>
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Hello, I'm reinstalling my desktop after a hardware upgrade and I'm having problems with the nvidia driver (x11/nvidia-driver). In short: it's horribly slow with desktop effects / compositing. I have enabled the FPS display and it cannot get to 60 even on an empty desktop. All operations requiring window redraws reduce the frame rate to a slide show (less than 5 FPS, many black lines in the FPS status display). 3D desktop cube rotates relatively smoothly unless there are windows to be drawn on the rotating desktops, at which point it's a slide show. I've tried playing movies with vlc player and it went fine, but watching youtube in the flash player in firefox again gives terrible performance and once even a hardware lockup. This is relatively recent nvidia GT 440 hardware; before it I had radeon 3600 (ancient), which had visual artifacts with the open source drivers but had acceptable performance. I'm dual-booting this with Windows 7 where, of course, there are no visual performance problems at all, even with demanding games. Any ideas? My xorg.conf was generated by nvidia-xconfig; it looks very plain, without loading any modules or extensions except the "nvidia" driver in the "Device" section. This is 8-stable amd64.
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