Christoph Obexer wrote:
Hey, i have the same symptoms on my Nvidia system: AMD PhenomII X6 1090T with Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 Ti, it was the same with the GTX 285...
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The killer for me is performance. When you click a menu item to bring up its popup submenu, the submenu will be sort of dark and when you move the cursor to it eventually it "catches up" and shows the background it's supposed to. There is a lag when hovering the cursor over anything. The really bad symptom shows up in Konsole - type any character and it takes 6 seconds before it echoes to the screen. Type something like 'ls -al' and it might be as bad as 10 or 20 seconds before it responds.
it seems to be better if I choose XRender instead of OpenGL, disabling Desktop effects altogether is a bad option because of all the rendering problems that appear when doing that.
Early yesterday morning I did zypper dup to 12.1 Milestone 5. At first I had the kernel and virtualbox tabooed as I initially wanted to keep 2.6.39 kernel and nvidia 260.19.44 driver version. After making a backup image I un-tabooed these and updated to kernel 3.0.0 (what's in Factory). I then tried both nvidia driver versions 280.13 and 285.03(beta). Desktop effects in general seemed fine now, except for one last outstanding problem. The killer mouse and keyboard lag I spoke of before was still present. All other problems, such as menu pop-ups backgrounds, etc, were vanquished. I found that the nasty lag also went away if I chose Xrender as the compositing backend instead of OpenGL under the Advanced tab. There are 2 files that need to be modified in order for the 260.19.44 drivers to build their kernel module on the 3.0.0 kernel. I just did that and installed 260.19.44 version. In the Advanced tab I can change back from Xrender to OpenGL compositing and the lag is no longer present. If it wasn't for that one last sticky point I would still be using the newer drivers. The kernel update plus the new drivers did not cause any trouble with desktop effects at all; just waiting for characters to echo to the screen and never being quite sure exactly where the mouse was at any given moment was a show-stopper. Also, I should probably include that killing the window manager and going to console was also symptom free. -Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org