Re: [CentOS] slowness with new kernel+nouveau?

On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 19:39 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:

On 08/15/2012 06:53 AM, Darod Zyree wrote:

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Hello,

New kernel version 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64 in combination with xorg-x11-drv-nouveau Version:0.0.16 is somehow painfully slow on my laptop.

during start up it takes almost half a minute for gnome login to appear. After having logged in the following happens:

• gnome top and bottom panels "slide/crawl" in to view one pixel line at

a time.

• starting the terminal takes much more time, 10-15, sometimes even up

to 20 seconds.

• Firefox also takes much longer to start.

Removing xorg-x11-drv-nouveau seems to resolve this "slowness" but then my attached monitor does not work.

Anyone else experiencing this issue or know how to fix/troubleshoot?

Have you tried installing the Nvidia drivers from the CentOS repo?

Thanks, this worked for me. Uninstalled nouveau and installed kmod-nvidia.