nvidia drivers worth installing?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 1/24/07, Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have recently updated nVidia driver (livna rpm x86_64 Kernel Module
> 1.0-9746 , Dual Core AMD X2) on FC6 hoping to see some improvement in
> performance with Beryl. But, unfortunately i could not find any
> improvements in that area. I have been running into the issue where Xorg
> would go nuts with CPU when Beryl is running. So, i have disabled the
> Beryl. Here is what lspci tells me about my graphics card.
>
> 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express
> Bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>
> Wondering if the issue is purely related to nVidia's driver (C51 PCI
> Express Bridge) or it is the combination of Beryl and nVidia.

Is Xorg hitting the CPU immediately, or over time?  Posting your X log
would be useful.


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