[CentOS] slowness with new kernel+nouveau?

Thu Aug 16 13:10:44 UTC 2012
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 08/16/2012 02:43 AM, Darod Zyree wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 19:39 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>> On 08/15/2012 06:53 AM, Darod Zyree wrote:
>>> 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.

Those drivers are from elrepo, not CentOS  :-D

But I use them all the time and highly recommend them.

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia


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