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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 7:30am

slow refresh of program windows etc

hi!

although on a pentium4 2600, when i switch windows it takes quite long until all parts of the new window are restored. scrolling is also often jerky...

i use the nvidia-drivers 1.0.8776 on a gentoo / kde 3.5 system.

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 8:18am

RE: slow refresh of program windows etc

And without nvidia drivers? Does that solve the problem?
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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 9:10am

how can i remove them, without destroying something? i will only have 640x480 right? there were big problems with configuring this thing (see no choice of refreshrate in kde display menu and http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-535636-highlight-.html), i'm really anxious that something goes wrong again...

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 9:23am

Xorg is delivered with an opensource nvidia driver called 'nv'.
That one works fine, but without 3D acceleration.

To load nv in stead of nvidia AFAIK, you can simply replace the phrase 'nvidia' with 'nv' in the right section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

To avoid breaking your system, first create a backup of the file that you can put back from the commandline if X does not start anymore.

Like this:

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cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup


If X does not start anymore, you can put the backup back to restore the previous settings.

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 12:13pm

the nv-driver was set by xorgcfg and indeed x didn't start anymore, i tried this some days ago. x doesn't find the "nv" driver... where can i find / get it?

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 1:36pm

it is part of the Xorg-packages for your distribution.
Most of the times it is installed by default, even if you don't have a nVidia Card
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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 3:36pm

lets check it: you wanted me to replace "nvidia" by "nv" in the "driver" variable, right?

Section "Device"

# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DigitalVibrance" "1"
Option "NoLogo" "1"
Option "NvAGP" "1"
Option "UseEDIDFreqs" "FALSE"
Option "UseEDIDDpi" "FALSE"
Option "ModeValidation" "NoEdidModes"
#VideoRam 131072
BusID ""
EndSection

when i do this (xorgcfg did that automatically after i selected having a nvidia-card), x doesn't start, but complains about missing driver "nv".

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "fenk" (Jan 30th 2007, 3:39pm)

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 3:58pm

p.s.: i tried this once again to have an exact error message:

"Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
No drivers available