[ILUG] SuSE 10 sluggish

[olearypj at rte.ie]

Quoting Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com>:

> Hello all,
> 
> I've just upgraded my computer from Suse Linux 9.3 to Suse Linux 10. 
> I've also installed the patch updates as suggested by YaST.
> 
> One thing I've immediately noticed is that the new interface is really
> sluggish.  There's a definite time lag between the time I click on a
> window and the time that the window appears in the foreground of my
> display.  Sometimes this lag is 2-3 seconds.  I have a pretty fast
> system with 1 GB of RAM, an NVidia GeForce 5500 graphics card  and an
> AMD 64 bit Athlon processor.  I didn't notice this lag on Suse 9.3.
> 
> I've gone into Yast on Suse 10 to see if there is any relevant option
> for the graphics card and monitor but with no luck.
> 
> A modprobe -l | grep -i agp shows that I seem to be using the nVidia
> AGP kernel module.  Could this be an issue vis a vis the linux agpgart
> kernel module?  In other words should I be using the linux agpgart
> instead?
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this problem?
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Braun Brelin
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Hi Braun, 
           I'm also running SuSE 10.0 but with an Athlon XP2600+ & 1GB of ram & 
an nvidia card. I had to set my installation source in YAST to
packman.rsync.zmi.zt, with the directory on the server set to /suse/10.0, this
is a http source btw.
Then do a YAST ONLINE UPDATE (YOU) & look for the NVIDIA driver & install it.
before i did this i had no 3-d either with this card. Hope this helps

Pat

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