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shak

Member

Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 405

big fonts size , high cpu usage

HI !!

I've managed to install and login to my new arch system thanks to some help from you guys . I have the following issue , the fonts desplayed are very big for my screen resolution 1680x1050 and my laptop (asus z7100) has high cpu usage (basically when i'm not doing anything i can see the cpu between 3 - 10 %) .I 've installed the nvidia drivers using the pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils .

my xorg.conf file is this :

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "xtrap"
#    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
    Option "DPMS"    "True"
    Option "DPI"    "96x96"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    Option "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option "CursorShadow" "true"
    Option "HWCursor" "true"
    Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
    Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP
    Option "InitialPixmapPlacement" "2"
    Option "GlyphCache"    "1"
    VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName   "NV43 [GeForce Go 6600]"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
#    Option "UseEvents" "true"
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes "1680x1050"
    EndSubSection   
EndSection

If you could help me fix this i would be grateful

Thanks again !!!

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: big fonts size , high cpu usage

Fore the font problem try adding Option "UseEdidDpi" "false" to your xorg.conf. I'm not sure that your DPI settings are taking effect.

shak

Member

Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 405

Re: big fonts size , high cpu usage

thanks for the quick reply ! i've tried that and there are no changes . In ubuntu i didn't have this kind of problem , i remember using driver nvidia 177 and it was fine , For some reason in arch( nvidia 180) the cpu is like is "working" constantly (high cpu usage) and the fonts are really big for size 10 . Can anyone suggest a solution ?

shak

Member

Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 405

Re: big fonts size , high cpu usage

my cpu usage is at 10% without doing anything . is it possible the powermizer of nvidia has something to do with it since it is a laptop ? I remember having the same problem with vista , my cpu usage was always high without doing anything .

Thanks for your help !