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galon
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 Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:54 pm Post subject: everything is drawed slowly in KDE 3.3 |
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My brother, a Debian user, visited me last week and noticed, that my KDE runs slow. Hmm. What do you mean - I asked. He said: opening windows is slow, and, most noticeable: when I click "logout" in Kmenu, screen shades, but it is done very slow, I can see drawing of the shadowed screen - from top to the bottom of the screen.
What is going on??
I installed KDE from the sources, it's v3.3.2, I use prelink and nvidia proper drivers.
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angoraspruce
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:40 am Post subject: Re: everything is drawed slowly in KDE 3.3 |
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Hello galon,
This might have something to do with your cpu/ram/video card. Why don't you post your stats for these (and your brother's too, if available, if you'd like people to comment on why your system runs slower than his). Also, have you tried any other desktops/window managers, and if you have, does your system run those slowly as well?
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galon
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:31 am Post subject: |
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Well, it's not the system, that runs slow. It's just KDE. Games run well, those OpenGL ones. When switching on computer, I see the KDE login screen in less than a minute time.
Both systems are more/less the same, my is Athlon 1700, ~400MB RAM, GForce 2 MX. The other box is Athlon 2000, 256MB RAM and GForce4.
I didn't try other managers - I'm not interested in it, I like KDE
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I can see drawing of the shadowed screen - from top to the bottom of the screen. |
AFAIK, this is how it supposed to be, since KDE 3.2 If I am not mistaken.
To speed up KDE you could prelink all your apps. A better solution is to upgrade to gcc 3.4.x and recompile KDE. It can take ages, but believe me - it is worth the efforts. I switched to GCC 3.4.3 recently and my KDE runs much faster.
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galon
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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As I mentioned, I did prelink -amR. However, I received many complains like:
| Code: | | prelink: /usr/games/bin/gl-info: Cannot prelink against non-PIC shared library /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 |
I did read Gentoo Linux Prelink Guide, there is no information about libGL.so.1. What is this, anyway? Do I need to reemerge it with USE="-fPIC"?
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jschellhaass
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Which options are using for the nvidia card? Are you using NvAgp or agpgart? Is Agp active?
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galon
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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How may I check it?
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jschellhaass
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Post the "Device" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
For agp status you can do grep AGP /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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galon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | bash-2.05b$ grep AGP /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 4X |
...and | Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
# The chipset line is optional in most cases. It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.
# Chipset "generic"
# The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.
Driver "vga"
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for. When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device. For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used. This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.
# BusID "PCI:0:10:0"
# VideoRam 256
# Clocks 25.2 28.3
EndSection
# Device configured by xorgconfig:
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce"
Driver "nvidia"
VideoRam 65536
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "DigitalVibrance" "2"
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection |
Thanks for helping me
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jschellhaass
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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The first thing I would do is add
| Code: | | Option "RenderAccel" "true" |
to the device section and see if that makes a difference.
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galon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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I noticed no difference in games (fgfs) and in KDE performance after adding the option.
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