Video is slow

[Roger]

On 25/08/13 21:32, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:57:03 +1000
> Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> I'm using Fedora 19 with the standard Nouveau video driver.
>> I've noticed that when re positioning gui windows with mouse,
>> movement is increasingly glunky, jerking in 5-10mm steps in any
>> direction. When dragging a border of a gui window the mouse moves to
>> almost 100 mm before edge of the window moves.
>>
>> Have a 2 gig Geforce GT8600 video card which is very goo d at 3d
>> Blender stuff.
>>
>> I swapped over to Ubuntu 13.04  which uses the Nvidia driver and
>> there is no problem at all
>>
>> Is there any fix for the Fedora 19 Nouveau jerky movement?
> The Nouveau driver performance is slow and jerky because the nVidia
> hardware is still being reverse-engineered and the driver is still
> under heavy development. You can take a look here
>
>    http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/
>
> to get an idea.
>
> If you don't insist on using Nouveau under Fedora, you can use the
> nVidia closed-source drivers just like in Ubuntu. The procedure is this:
>
> (1) install the rpmfusion repo [1] (if you haven't already),
>
> (2) do a "yum install kmod-nvidia" (it might take a while to finish
> because rebuilding the initrd is heavy, be patient with it),
>
> (3) reboot the machine.
>
> After that the nVidia driver should be active and everything
> graphics-related should be very smooth and silky... :-)
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko
>
> [1] http://rpmfusion.org/
>
Took the plunge and following the above installed kmod-nvidia now Fedora 
boot hangs at  Started Accounts Service
I also note that it fails to start ISDN service?
Pretty much dead and can't access anything.
Help is greatly appreciated thanks.
Writing this from Ubuntu.
thanks in advance
Roger