Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3539 mails)

["Alexander Egger" <alexander.egger@xxxxxxxxx>]

As allready discussed in a previous thread. I have the same hardware
and no 100% cpu issues. But I only us the emerald decorator!

Alexander

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Manne Merak <mannemerak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rodney Baker wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:12:16 Manne Merak wrote:
> >
> > > Rodney Baker wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all.
> > > >
> > > > I run an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 video card (256MB video RAM) on an
> > > > Athlon
> > > > XP 2600 NForce2 based motherboard with 1GB RAM.
> > > >
> > > > I was running the NVIDIA binary drivers version 100.14.19 and all was
> > > > going smoothly. After upgrading to version 169.12, things started to go
> > > > awry with compiz and xorg between them constantly chewing up 100% CPU
> > > > time. System response time was like stirring treacle.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Any suggesions/pointers gratefully accepted.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > I have a 8600M in my Vostro 1700 and have exactly the same problem.  I
> > > havent tried reverting back to previous NVIDIA drivers, but I did try
> > > XGL and that works great - falling back to just Xorg+NVIDIA and compiz
> > > starts crawling (well actually X starting eating 100% CPU).  I really
> > > want to get this working without XGL, so I can still use other OpenGL
> > > apps.
> > > Strange thing is my desktop with a 6600 NVIDIA runs fine, same compiz, X
> > > and NVIDIA driver?  Maybe just issue with specific cards?
> > > What specifically did you move around in the xorg.conf file?
> > >
> > > Manne
> >
> > The main change that seemed to do the trick (before the problem reoccurred
> > after applying the upgrades via YaST/openSuSE Updater) was moving the Render
> > Accel option from the Screen section to the Device Section. I'm still not
> > sure why this made a difference or why the problem then recurred without
> > making further changes. Nvidia-xconfig later put the Render Accel option
> > back into the Screen section but the location does not appear to matter when
> > using the 100.14.19 drivers.
> >
> > Rodney.
>
> Well, I spoke to soon - X still goes to 100% CPU (randomly)?
> It seems I have one other lead - when using Emerald the 100%CPU problem
> disappears?
> So it must be something to do with kde-windows-decorator?
> I still get some "stutter" every now and them, but that is because of the
> 8600M power management (I already found a workaround for that)
>
> Manne
> ps. It still puzzles me that the desktop with a 6600 performs better (with
> kde-windows-decorator)
>
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