Dennis Gallien wrote:
On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 07:51 AM James Knott wrote:
I recently installed 12.1 on a system that has run 11.0 well for years. It's an Asus A8N-E mom board with a Nvidia GeForce 7300 GE video card& 3 GB of memory. The KDE desktop is sluggish, sometimes extremely slow. It might take several seconds from when I click on something to when I can see it change. In top, I see Xorg is taking significant amounts of %MEM (up to about 30%) and %CPU (sometimes over 75%). Sometimes the system isn't too bad, others, almost unusable.
I have these packages installed:
nvidia-computeG02 - NVIDIA driver for computing with GPGPU nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop - NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module for GeForce 6xxx and newer GPUs x11-video-nvidiaG02 - NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 6xxx and newer GPUs xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau - Accelerated Open Source driver for nVidia cards.
Should I have both the xorg& nvidia drivers?
tnx jk Check with lsmod to determine which driver is being loaded. If it is nouveau, make sure it is blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d (probably in filename nvidia.conf).
A troubleshooting method you can use is to start the system and open ksysguard immediately without anything else running. Watch under the Process tab. I have seen a couple of applications like Kmail cause (for a reason I don't know) Xorg to eat the machine. So start/stop the apps you use to see if one of them incites Xorg to this behavior, or whether Xorg does this with nothing else running.
Lsmod shows "nforce" and "i2c_nforce2" loaded. As for killing nouveau, wouldn't it be easier to simply remove it from Software Management? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org