Johnny Hughes wrote: > 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 I concur. The only thing I get from elrepo is kmod-nvidia; on install, it creates a blacklist for nouveau, so it won't be automatically loaded. It also rebuilds by itself when you update the kernel, instead of having to manually rebuild the drivers from the proprietary installer. I hear rumors that kmod-nvidia will be coming in RHEL soon, and so here to CentOS. mark