Re: nvidia-graphics-drivers and KDE slowdown in Squeeze

[Alan Dacey <grokit@ajinfosearch.com>]

On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 05:59:19 pm Alan Dacey Sr. wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 03:54:21 pm André Wöbbeking wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wednesday 22 September 2010, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I see here on a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p very poor performance with the nvidia-
> > > graphics-drivers drivers in squeeze when running KDE (desktop effects
> > > enabled or disabled does not make a difference):
> > 
> > Do you use the Oxygen style and are animations enabled there? If so try another 
> > style or disable animations. You probably have to restart X (maybe even reboot 
> > or try your dis- and reenable desktop effects trick). Does that help?
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > André
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> There may be a drawing problem using the Oxygen style.  It basically draws way to 
> many things.  Should be fixed in the KDE 4.5.2 release.
> 
> http://hugo-kde.blogspot.com/2010/09/performance-issues-one-script-and-call.html
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
This also is good news for 4.6 in January (or svn now)

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/09/be-vewwwwy-quiet-im-hunting-pixmaps.html

Alan