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alez

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Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 74

Gnome-shell and Nvidia-173

Hi, i'm most usually running Xfce but curiosity got the best of me and i'm trying gnome 3 now. The problem i find is that gnome-shell runs slow (really slow) with the Nvidia-173 drivers. Such problems were normal back in testing but should be fixed now from what it seems. Gnome fallback works ok but i would like the shell to work. I think it should be possible, compiz runs ok with this card and of course xfce does too. I tried with nouveau drivers and surprisingly it was slow but better, although it would get unusuable after some time by getting slower and slower. Nevertheless the best option should be propietary drivers but my search has given nothing so far. Is it happening to other users? I tried with another (clean) session and the result was the same. The card in question is listed by Gnome as Nvidia "GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!" I already had a good time getting gnome to recognize it was there but hey, let's be possitive! Any ideas? Does anyone know if the card is too old for running GS and it's either fallback or buy a new one? Well, hope everything was clear, and if any admin thinks it belongs rather in Multimedia just go ahead and move it. Thank you everyone, i don't post a lot in the forums but i appreciate them very much.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Gnome-shell and Nvidia-173

Are you sure it's the card's problem? Maybe your CPU is getting bogged down or you run out of RAM. Have you looked and what e.g. htop shows when your computer is getting slower and slower?

Proprietary nviida drivers don't support KMS, I don't know if it matters, I'm not using Gnome.

Young

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Registered: 2009-04-26

Posts: 50

Re: Gnome-shell and Nvidia-173

You're not alone. I have the same video card (nVidia GeForce 5200 AGP) and Gnome Shell is unusable with the proprietary driver (nvidia-173xx). I tried to use nouveau and it worked, but everything feels slow and filled with glitches. If anyone find a solution, please let me know.

triplesquarednine

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Registered: 2011-04-12

Posts: 630

Re: Gnome-shell and Nvidia-173

Hi, i'm most usually running Xfce but curiosity got the best of me and i'm trying gnome 3 now. The problem i find is that gnome-shell runs slow (really slow) with the Nvidia-173 drivers. Such problems were normal back in testing but should be fixed now from what it seems. Gnome fallback works ok but i would like the shell to work. I think it should be possible, compiz runs ok with this card and of course xfce does too. I tried with nouveau drivers and surprisingly it was slow but better, although it would get unusuable after some time by getting slower and slower. Nevertheless the best option should be propietary drivers but my search has given nothing so far. Is it happening to other users? I tried with another (clean) session and the result was the same. The card in question is listed by Gnome as Nvidia "GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!" I already had a good time getting gnome to recognize it was there but hey, let's be possitive! Any ideas? Does anyone know if the card is too old for running GS and it's either fallback or buy a new one? Well, hope everything was clear, and if any admin thinks it belongs rather in Multimedia just go ahead and move it. Thank you everyone, i don't post a lot in the forums but i appreciate them very much.

I believe only the latest Nvidia drivers have had some fixes applied to work better with Gnome-Shell. I was told that a week or so ago by a gnome-developer.  You will find Mutter is still fairly shotty - a lot of people are having issues with it; from poor GFX performance, as in significant loss in FPS.... to certain applications not even being usable in Gnome-Shell, to do bad compositing, graphical artifacts, etc.

compiz runs exactly the same in Gnome3, as it did in Gnome2. I am using it right now, and wont be switching to gnome-shell, anytime soon if at all.  So, if you can't get GS to run, or don't end up liking it. You have other options.

jordan