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
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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