Fedora-14: Slow nVidia video

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Sat Nov 13 06:31:12 UTC 2010


On 11/13/2010 12:17 AM, William Perkins wrote:
> 
> I have just completed three upgrades from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 on two 
> laptops and one AMD workstation.  The two laptops are running great, but 
> the work station is now suffering from very slow video that was not 
> happening with Fedora 12.
> 
> The video card is a nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] (rev a1) and 
> I am trying to continue using the "nv" vidio driver that I was using with
> Fedora 12.  I do not use the "nouveau" driver because it does not support
> zooming and I need that function because of my poor eyes.  The "nouveau" 
> driver is blacklisted in the modules configuration, as well as in the Grub 
> configuration.
> 
> It looks like that the "nv" driver is not even being used with the work 
> station Fedora 14 installation, even though it appears to be configured to 
> do so.  Instead, an i2c layer seens to be doing most of the work, and it 
> is slow!
> 
> What I want to know is how to correct the video system configuration so 
> that the system uses the "nv" driver rather than the i2c layer and 
> whatever other drivers may be envolved.  Please tell me what I am missing!

The most useful output would be the X log file.
Probably in /var/log/Xorg.0.log  That will tell us what X thinks it is
doing.

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