From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 30 16:36:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19427106564A; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:36:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from geo.liaskos@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B648FC15; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:36:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb15 with SMTP id 15so2292756gwb.13 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:36:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=YWGAPB2ZTZUh3U8jCh7coYdKbJpdSOddM36ADKMQvAg=; b=vUeXwlxPelAj5lPB3y6Vn0fBhhEIhWPZ9kLgMG9yIa2hja8bcEFRTQ7jvtfQFfBpTE HzGIKq9Exr7djVP+QjtgFlkKF1NRCgEiiQN9B/a12dlICbBFtcNqdJ3SBZkYA+oi/ej4 YXgzEdIpa9rwAY+Au3CPaStRgkDX2sNXGV04Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=GqxvJrRD0CRs17isahE2GCdb+VBqzGg7PyZL1aw7A4iyejtLUIIMFMMMUo0XGYQiB+ SoiZWakfUX67mWy5MvcXu5rmVdUygYVQmqzUmc0ALU2dKY3xO+fjxXrWWeS4X2wXDAvm ude38bUDNNTtYIsTJLvJ/rdwAt/LXGq0rNrTo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.219.8 with SMTP id r8mr1221550agg.96.1304179987000; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:13:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.101.68.4 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:13:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:13:06 +0300 Message-ID: From: George Liaskos To: Ivan Voras Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very bad performance with nvidia-driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:36:29 -0000 On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Ivan Voras 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.