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moustic

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 43

kernel 2.6.29 NVIDIA and KDE 4.2 very slow sometimes

Helle word,

Since my updating in kde 4.2.2 AND KERNEL 2.6.29 , my laptop becomes very slow and  the composite is stopped. It occurs regularly and my laptop becomes then unusable !

What is the problem?

xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse not detected
# Serial Mouse not detected
        InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"
    Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
    Option "DontZap" "False"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
        Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "record"
    #   Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
    Option "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol" "Microsoft"
    Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
    Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol" "auto"
    Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
    Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Buttons"               "5"
EndSection

# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 9500M GS"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
    Option         "DamageEvents" "True"
    Option         "UseCompositeWrapper" "True"
    Option         "AllowIndirectPixmaps" "True"
    Option         "BackingStore" "True"
    Option         "PixmapCacheSize" "200000"
    Option         "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Laptop:
Asus A7SN-7S004C - Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 (2,5 GHz) -  17,1
Nvidia geforce 9500M GS - kernel driver 180.51-1

Please, Help me it's verryyy ssssllllloooooowwwwwww:|

Last edited by moustic (2009-05-08 10:25:21)

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rune0077

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Registered: 2009-04-11

Posts: 135

Re: kernel 2.6.29 NVIDIA and KDE 4.2 very slow sometimes

Is nepomuk running? Check in System Settings > Advanced tab > Desktop Search. If it is, try disabling it, since it takes up a lot of resources when it's running.

moustic

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 43

Re: kernel 2.6.29 NVIDIA and KDE 4.2 very slow sometimes

No ...:rolleyes:

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Solid1986Snake

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Registered: 2007-06-18

Posts: 258

Re: kernel 2.6.29 NVIDIA and KDE 4.2 very slow sometimes

Which nvidia driver version are you using?

normally you shuold not need this anymore:

Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
    Option         "DamageEvents" "True"
    Option         "UseCompositeWrapper" "True"
    Option         "AllowIndirectPixmaps" "True"
    Option         "BackingStore" "True"
    Option         "PixmapCacheSize" "200000"
    Option         "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"

rune0077

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Registered: 2009-04-11

Posts: 135

Re: kernel 2.6.29 NVIDIA and KDE 4.2 very slow sometimes

Your best bet is to run "top" from a terminal, then you can see if there's anything that is using a lot of RAM/cpu when things slow down.

moustic

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 43

Re: kernel 2.6.29 NVIDIA and KDE 4.2 very slow sometimes

What about this ?

dmesg see:

IRQ 16/nvidia: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs

and this:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=125503

I add "nopat" in grub config file:

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS 
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/sda        (hd0)
#  /dev/sdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/sda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#  for more details and different resolutions see
#  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution 

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/51b1bbc4-2794-4f16-8ad3-0e800c78e531 ro nopat
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/51b1bbc4-2794-4f16-8ad3-0e800c78e531 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

# (2) Windows
#title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1

and it's works now without nvidia and sata disk errors !

Last edited by moustic (2009-05-08 10:25:59)

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moustic

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 43

Re: kernel 2.6.29 NVIDIA and KDE 4.2 very slow sometimes

NOT WORKING !!!:lol:

Last edited by moustic (2009-05-08 16:17:18)

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justtesting

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Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 4

Re: kernel 2.6.29 NVIDIA and KDE 4.2 very slow sometimes

moustic, especially the nvidia-mobile-gpu seem to have stability problems with the 180-series of drivers. Not every release works with every gpu and graphic bios, sadly there is no "good" release that works everyware.

This is not an archlinux problem, feel free to check the nvidia forum for this lenghty thread:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123912

My mobile9600GT won't work with anything later than 180.29, so maybe you want to downgrade the nvidia driver until you find a release that's working for you.

moustic

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 43

Re: kernel 2.6.29 NVIDIA and KDE 4.2 very slow sometimes

I love archlinux of course:) ... and i know it's not a archlinux trouble but a nvidia - kernel 2.6.29 mistake:rolleyes:.

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