F12: 30 second freeze when accessing certain panel items ?

[Martin Kho]

On Monday 14 December 2009 23:43:34 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > Apparently it's an xorg performance issue that affects any non-KMS
> > driver (ie, nvidia, and anyone using nomodeset).
> 
> Except all 3 main drivers in Fedora (intel, nouveau, radeon) support KMS
>  and use it by default.
> 
> > There is NO NEED to label the proprietary nvidia driver as "evil"
> 
> The labeling as "evil" is completely unrelated to this issue.
> 
> > imply that the problem is somehow caused by nvidia's driver when it is
> > actually an xorg issue.
> 
> The problem is also partly caused by the NVidia driver still not supporting
> kernel modesetting.

FYI: The NVidia driver will probably never get support for ksm. See the 
contributions from AaronP in [1].

[1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=113645

Martin Kho

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