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Elektro

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From: Spain

Registered: 2009-05-28

Posts: 16

[SOLVED]Nvidia and Compiz Fusion Issues

Hello.

Recently i have installed Arch linux in my desktop PC(amd64). Everything is ok, alsa works fine, pulseaudio ok, video ok and all things.

But when in turn on Compiz Fusion the performance of my nvidia card decreases so much and i don't know what is the problem.

I have installed the nvidia Package called "nvidia 180.51-1" (pacman -S nvidia). Y have used "nvidia-xconfig" to generate a fresh xorg.conf config file. I have tested glxgears, and glxinfo and all things is ok(direct rendering : on...)

Some Compiz Fusion effects works fine, but others like Expo or Desktop Cube, works very slow(Fps gones down).

When Compiz fusion is on glxgears displays ~6866.390 FPS and when is off glxgears dispalys ~19327.131 FPS.

My Card is Asus G-Force 8800Gt 512mb in Arch Linux x86_64 version.

Here is my xorg.conf config:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Fri Apr 17 00:40:10 PDT 2009


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    #Load         "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    disable          "dri2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
    Option         "DamageEvents" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
    Option         "DamageEvents" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Sorry for my english i know that is not soo good

thanks.

Last edited by Elektro (2009-05-28 20:35:20)

stefanwilkens

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From: Enschede, the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 624

Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia and Compiz Fusion Issues

run compiz with loose bindings and indirect redering enabled on nvidia performance will increase by a truckload.

if you use fusion-icon, you can right click -> compiz options -> loose binding / indirect rendering

*edit*

welcome

Last edited by stefanwilkens (2009-05-28 18:12:51)

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Elektro

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From: Spain

Registered: 2009-05-28

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia and Compiz Fusion Issues

Hello again.

Thank you, it works!

And thanks for welcome

cheer. ^_^

Last edited by Elektro (2009-05-28 20:35:57)