On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > This post might be a bit vague, sorry about that, I'm not sure where to > start or how to explain it. > > New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, emerged kde-meta-4.1, but > it renders exceptionally slowly on the screen when scrolling.
*lol* sorry but - yeah, this is a known problem with the nvidia 8XXX and 9XXX series. Their drivers is broken. KDE has a big article about it in their techbase. Also: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=115916 (nVidia 8000/9000 Series Performance Issues) http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=117043 (Please stop that bashing...) http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=109990 (KDE4 almost unuseable) > The effect is > as if something is keeping the system very busy while input actions occur: > > It can take 30 secs to scroll slashdot's front page from top to bottom. yepp > Any web page displayed in akregator inside kontact is even slower. yepp > When kwallet pops up asking for the master password, it misses keystrokes > when typing at normal speed. oh yes. > Scrolling through a long mail in kmail is slightly slower than normal, but > scrolling the same mail in a reply window is full speed. mhm > Konqueror in split-window mode takes a few seconds to react when navigating > through directories. yepp. > > Can anyone point me in the direction of a nice howto or the correct tools > to figure out what's going on here? > and typing something into a forum has several seconds of lag, desktop menu takes seconds to appear and more seconds to react to input, .... see the links above. In short, you are screwed. There is no real remedy until Nvidia fixes their broken drivers. Some stuff might help a bit - but most of the time one thing gets slightly better and another one a lot worse. The only good news: there is nothing wrong with your system.
