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void.pointer

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[SOLVED] Nvidia & Firefox 3: Slow Scrolling

I currently have GNOME installed on my Archlinux desktop machine. If you use GMail and have ever had to use the mouse wheel to scroll through a long email conversation you might notice that the window scrolls very slow (very choppy). According to a thread I found via google search, nvidia was aware of this problem and they have said that a future release will fix it. That was mid-2008. I'm wondering if the nvidia package in archlinux includes this fix? Obviously not because I'm still having issues. Is there any way to fix this?

Last edited by void.pointer (2009-02-04 01:51:14)

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia & Firefox 3: Slow Scrolling

Try getting Yet Another Smooth Scrolling addon.

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia & Firefox 3: Slow Scrolling

Nvidia 180.22 drivers fixed this for me, and many others on the nvnews forums.

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void.pointer

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia & Firefox 3: Slow Scrolling

Nvidia 180.22 drivers fixed this for me, and many others on the nvnews forums.

How do I find out what version of NVIDIA drivers I have installed? I installed the nvidia package, so I'm not sure what that gave me.

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia & Firefox 3: Slow Scrolling

When you run the nvidia-settings utility, there should be a line that says Driver Version.

If it's 180.22 or higher, consider filing a bug report and/or posting on the nvnews forums (which are official).

Instructions for filing bug reports are stickied on that forum.

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void.pointer

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia & Firefox 3: Slow Scrolling

When you run the nvidia-settings utility, there should be a line that says Driver Version.

If it's 180.22 or higher, consider filing a bug report and/or posting on the nvnews forums (which are official).

Instructions for filing bug reports are stickied on that forum.

Interesting, after installing a few font packages through pacman it seems to scroll smoothly now. Not sure what was up with that. Thanks for all of your help, sorry for the waste of time.