On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 04:33:43 PM James Knott wrote:
I have an Nvidia GEForce 7200 video card in my computer. Ever since I upgraded from openSUSE 11.x to 12.x, I have noticed a severe performance hit. Indications in this group were that it might be a video driver issue. I tried both the Nvidia and Nouveau drivers, but they didn't make much difference. I just added the Nvidia repository and went with their drivers (I had used that repository with 11.x and earlier). What an incredible increase in performance!!! I can't believe it's the same computer. Even even speedtest.net shows a considerable improvement, going from about 2 - 5 Mb/s download to 31! (other, newer computers get about 35). It's absolutely amazing what proper video drivers can do. Perhaps whoever's responsible for the drivers included with the distro should take a 2nd look at their work. They absolutely kill performance, compared to the ones from the Nvidia repository. The performance was often so bad that I was thinking about buying a new computer. Now I won't have to.
It would have been interesting to know what drivers you were using when the system was so slow. Perhpas the first time you installed the nvidia driver the nouveau was not properly blacklisted. We install openSUSE from our own image made with KIWI. We always have the nvidia driver repo enabled when we make these images so the nvidia driver is always there from the start. I suspect that you had the nouveau driver, which is the default one gets with openSUSE. This is because nvidia will not let distros distribute their drivers. So there is always the step you did to get theis drivers. I cannot see the benefit to nvidia for making this be the way it is. -- Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org