[CentOS] slowness with new kernel+nouveau?

Wed Aug 15 23:39:54 UTC 2012
Mark LaPierre <marklapier at aol.com>

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?

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