Overall slow down of Linux distros on nvidia based systems

praka123 · 03-07-2008, 10:56 PM

Hi,
I understand that there is a slow response with NVIDIA GPU Based systems esp Ubuntu and other Linux distros.this is highly observed in 8xxx and 9xxx series?

you may try latest 177.13 beta driver.It is better
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=114955

else a workaround shown on nvnet and ubuntu forums is to add

Code:

InitialPixmapPlacement=2

on your /etc/X11/xorg.conf section "driver" .

I read that this may not work with 3D compiz/beryl or aiglx/xgl.

Quote:

Option "PixmapCacheSize" "200000"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True" # Experimental
Option "BackingStore" "True" # Experimental

And i wrote sudo nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1 in a terminal
As was mentioned in the 173.08 beta release, 173.14.05 contains support for an experimental glyph cache on the GeForce 8 and 9 series that may improve anti-aliased font rendering performance. This support can be enabled by running nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1.

(from the thread)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=779088

also consider reading this thread:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=115536

Now I think Intel,AMD/ATi got lesser problems than the nvidia systems obviously.

How to install nvidia driver setup we download from nvidia ftp?

irrelevant of which distro ,u need to have gcc,libc6-dev,make,linux-headers or linux-(kernel name)-devel etc installed.for Debian based distros like Ubuntu ,you can apt-get install build-essential which essentially bundles all of this.

next ,check the gcc version of which your linux kernel is compiled.
use

Code:

cat /proc/version

for the info.

if it is compiled with gcc-4.3 , you have to make sure the symlink /usr/bing/gcc points towards gcc-4.3. or use env variable CC=gcc-4.3 in this example.

now 'chmod+x NVIDIA--.sh ' and as sudo or su ,start with "./NVIDIA--.sh" .Hopefully it will build the module fine. next "rmmode nvidia && modprobe nvidia" module.

with Debian distros ,make use of module-assistant which can make the nvidia module easily.

Hope this helps