Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:13:06 +0300 From: George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very bad performance with nvidia-driver Message-ID: <BANLkTin2Z1nfD0ALehxHiPbTFq5Fcm_S7g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <iph5j6$pto$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <iph5j6$pto$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm reinstalling my desktop after a hardware upgrade and I'm having problems > with the nvidia driver (x11/nvidia-driver). > > In short: it's horribly slow with desktop effects / compositing. I have > enabled the FPS display and it cannot get to 60 even on an empty desktop. > All operations requiring window redraws reduce the frame rate to a slide > show (less than 5 FPS, many black lines in the FPS status display). 3D > desktop cube rotates relatively smoothly unless there are windows to be > drawn on the rotating desktops, at which point it's a slide show. I've tried > playing movies with vlc player and it went fine, but watching youtube in the > flash player in firefox again gives terrible performance and once even a > hardware lockup. > > This is relatively recent nvidia GT 440 hardware; before it I had radeon > 3600 (ancient), which had visual artifacts with the open source drivers but > had acceptable performance. > > I'm dual-booting this with Windows 7 where, of course, there are no visual > performance problems at all, even with demanding games. > > Any ideas? > > My xorg.conf was generated by nvidia-xconfig; it looks very plain, without > loading any modules or extensions except the "nvidia" driver in the "Device" > section. > > This is 8-stable amd64. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > What version of the driver are you using? Your card is supported by >= 270.41.06 Should we send a pr? 256.53 is outdated and i don't see a reason to not use the latest stable version available. I use 270.x my self without issues, gnome3 is unusable with everything older than that.
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