On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 02:41 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The worst thing is not that it is slow: in my system, it crashes too easily.
More people are reporting similar problems in this list and elsewhere.
I have tried in that 9.3 in another partition: as I feared, the same driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8776-pkg1.run) works very fast and it doesn't crash. I played tux race for an hour and it was fast and smooth. The glxgears turned so fast I couldn't count the turns (in 10.1, I could, easily).
Some days back I had also tried older drivers in 10.1 and they were slow. It's not a problem only with the newest driver.
Therefore, there is something wrong in the 10.1 distro or the kernel or whatever that makes the NVidia drivers work slow. Or there is an incompatibility amongst both. Not only slow, but unstable, which is worst.
Carlos, You may find it worthwhile to look at <http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678> which mentions what information nvidia would like to see in a bug report and also gives a link to info about stability problems. HTH, Dave