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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Kevin J. Cummings
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