From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 30 14:16:18 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D777106566B for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:16:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gofdx-freebsd-x11@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A1F8FC13 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:16:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QGAy1-00005q-3Y for freebsd-x11@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:16:17 +0200 Received: from cpe-188-129-112-240.dynamic.amis.hr ([188.129.112.240]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:16:17 +0200 Received: from ivoras by cpe-188-129-112-240.dynamic.amis.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:16:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:16:05 +0200 Lines: 29 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe-188-129-112-240.dynamic.amis.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110421 Thunderbird/3.1.9 Subject: Very bad performance with nvidia-driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:16:18 -0000 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.