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estevao

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From: Vitória, ES - Brazil

Registered: 2009-10-13

Posts: 100

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xorg 1.8 + nvidia drivers

Hey guys!

Yesterday, I upgraded to the new xorg 1.8.0.901-1 with nvidia 195.36.24-1 and nvidia-utils 195.36.24-2, but in some sites the scrolling is veeeeery slow (using the scroll bar, with the mouse wheel it's better, but not 100%), example page: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/38131 . In this page, when I try to scroll down using the scroll bar, my X process consumes between 40 and 55% of CPU o.O, and Firefox is very choppy (ps. Pango is disabled in Firefox).

My video card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)

Am I missing some important/magic option in the device section?

Here's my xorg.conf (generated by X -configure)

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  "dri"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dri2"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "extmod"
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"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName   "G86 [GeForce 8400 GS]"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Someone else with slow scrolling in that page?

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by estevao (2010-05-02 22:01:43)

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: xorg 1.8 + nvidia drivers

I only have these (no xorg.conf):

~ $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf
Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "RandRRotation" "true"
    Option "NoLogo"        "true"
    Option "Coolbits"      "1"
    Option "TripleBuffer"  "True"
   # Option "DamageEvents"  "True"
   # Option  "UseEvents"    "True"
   # Option "BackingStore" "True"
    Option "DPMS" "True"
    Option "RegistryDwords" "PerfLevelSrc=0x3333"
EndSection

estevao

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From: Vitória, ES - Brazil

Registered: 2009-10-13

Posts: 100

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Re: xorg 1.8 + nvidia drivers

Someone else with similar hardware/software configuration having rendering issues in https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/38131 ?

Thanks in advance!

frigaut

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From: Canberra, Australia

Registered: 2009-05-10

Posts: 215

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Re: xorg 1.8 + nvidia drivers

Try without the module section altogether. It shouldn't be necessary.

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Erus_Iluvatar

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Registered: 2010-04-01

Posts: 128

Re: xorg 1.8 + nvidia drivers

What about the last nvidia-beta? 256.25 here.

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hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: xorg 1.8 + nvidia drivers

I am experiencing this as well, generally on bugs.launchpad, but haven't noticed it with another site yet. I am not running testing:

xorg-server 1.7.6-3
nvidia 195.36.15-2

Not sure when this started, can't really link it to a particular update. A new firefox profile changes nothing, so it should not be a problem with extension etc. I installed chromium to use launchpad, works flawlessly there.