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ajschwartz

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Registered: 2008-10-19

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[SOLVED] Gnome 3 - graphics are faster on openSUSE...

Hi everyone,

I hope this is the right place for this. In case i'm wrong, my apologies.

After playing around with Gnome 3 yesterday on both Fedora and openSUSE live system, I've decided to upgrade my Arch Installation via the [testing] repo (naturally).
The thing is, that switching from/to the "Activities" view was a lot snappier on openSUSE than on my Arch (not to mention it was a live system).

BTW, even though the installation itself went OK, it was full of these sort of messages:
/tmp/alpm_iOR34P/.INSTALL: line 13: gtk-update-icon-cache: command not found

Any thoughts?

A.J.

Last edited by ajschwartz (2011-04-08 18:56:14)

Dogmeat

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From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 - graphics are faster on openSUSE...

BTW, even though the installation itself went OK, it was full of these sort of messages:
/tmp/alpm_iOR34P/.INSTALL: line 13: gtk-update-icon-cache: command not found

Install gtk-update-icon-cache.

ajschwartz

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Registered: 2008-10-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 - graphics are faster on openSUSE...

warning: gtk-update-icon-cache-2.24.4-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
Already installed...

Vamp898

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 - graphics are faster on openSUSE...

I would bet it have to do with that [testing] is an testing repository and not for stable use.

There could be for example GPU Drivers in it which are not stable and tested with the rest of the system

ajschwartz

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Registered: 2008-10-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 - graphics are faster on openSUSE...

nvidia package from [extra] is 270.30-3, whereas the one is installed from [testing] is 270.30-4.
Could there really be such a difference?

I must admit though, that Gnome 3 does seem to have some potential to it.
The screenshots and reviews I've seen up until the final version did not make a good impression.

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 - graphics are faster on openSUSE...

here is the catch.

fedora and opensuse live cd is using NOUVEAU driver and gnome-shell works better with nouveau than with nvidia.

is know that nvidia driver is buggy under mutter/gnome-shell and they have to fix their architecture.

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ajschwartz

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 - graphics are faster on openSUSE...

Gotcha!

Thanks wonder, you're a wonder

ajschwartz

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 - graphics are faster on openSUSE...

Actually....
I just switched to Nouveau, and it's pretty much the same...

Clues, Ideas, Thoughts?

PerisH

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Registered: 2010-02-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 - graphics are faster on openSUSE...

There is a patch in this page about gnome-shell. The patch seems to fix problems with the nvidia drivers but i don't know how apply. So if you know how to patch, you can try this.

The page is:     http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/SwatList

Sorry for my english!

ajschwartz

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 - graphics are faster on openSUSE...

OK.

So, after fighting around with Nouveau for a while (removing/reinstalling etc) I got it working.
When the session loads, the screen is trashed for a few seconds, but after that everything is up, and the animations do go faster.

Thanks for everyone, this can be marked as solved.

BTW, maybe the Wiki should say that Gnome 3 and Nvidia proprietary don't play nice together.

A.J.

martin_herndl

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-11-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 - graphics are faster on openSUSE...

OK.

So, after fighting around with Nouveau for a while (removing/reinstalling etc) I got it working.
When the session loads, the screen is trashed for a few seconds, but after that everything is up, and the animations do go faster.

Thanks for everyone, this can be marked as solved.

BTW, maybe the Wiki should say that Gnome 3 and Nvidia proprietary don't play nice together.

A.J.

did you get rid of the problem that nouveau was running with slow animations as you mentioned before? I guess you also installed nouveau-dri, didn't you? because I ran into the same problems

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ajschwartz

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Registered: 2008-10-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 - graphics are faster on openSUSE...

Things worked pretty well with Nouveau. The animations ran smoothly.
I used xf86-video-nouveau-git from AUR.

I hope this helps.

BTW, don't forget to read the Xorg Wiki, as you need to manually add a 10-monitor.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

A.J.