Problems with nv driver

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/7/06, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> wrote:
> On 11/07/2006 08:41 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 11/7/06, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> wrote:
> >> I have an nVidia GeForce4 440 Go in my laptop and I use the nv driver on
> >> Fedora Core 6, recently upgraded (fresh install) from FC5.
> >>
> >> With this combination, googleearth is slow as molasses.  On FC5 it was
> >> maybe a bit slow, but still perfectly usable, but on FC6 it's totally
> >> unusable.  I basically get complete screen redraws one after the other
> >> while googleearth is zooming (well, trying to zoom) around.
> >>
> >> What happened between FC5 and FC6 to cause this?  Is there anything I
> >> can do to improve things?
> >
> > I'd expect googleearth to be slow with the nv driver.
>
> Yes, but it was usable under FC5 and it is totally unusable under FC6.
> Both with the nv driver.

Most likely because FC6 uses Composite by default.  You can try disabling it.


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