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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120816/8756bdad/attachment-0005.sig>