with my openSUSE install on my Nox A15 - most everything is really slow. simple things such as opening the K-menu, resizing windows and alt+tabbing is a NIGHTMARE. my DE is KDE 4 and my WM is compiz-fusion. also the graphics seem to hang from time to time. e.g. in yakuake, if I type “ls” - I won’t see anything before I highlight the text. then the graphics are forced to come along.
things are better without compiz. a bit slow, but a million times better. it’s actually usable.
I have a Geforce 9600M GT and I have the nVidia drivers installed via one-click install. why on earth is my notebook so impossible to use? I refuse to step down and go on without the cube and scale and all the other immensely practical feats of compiz-fusion though. please help me
ok. I’m seriously considering just going KDE 3.5 anyway. would that fix my problems? or would I still have to install drivers manually? are there any scripts or whatever that will do this for me?
edit: WOW that nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1 worked great!
actually I don’t think I’ll have to. if I now can get wmas to play in amarok - I think openSUSE is finally ready to replace Fedora 9 as my main OS. oh and I can figure out networking (with Windows). I could never get the hang of that on Fedora, heh.
what’s this? seems that quick fix didn’t last long. it’s unusable again with compiz-fusion. atm I’m on KDE 3.5 and it’s very good… without compiz-fusion. but as soon as I activate it - everything is real choppy and bad. not as bad as on KDE 4 - i.e. usable - but still. choppy. way too choppy for a computer with 4gm ram, 9600gtm running nothing but cube, scale and a few other things (don’t even have any animations activated).
It seems that NVidia needs more work on their drivers for you video card. I feel lucky that my card (see sig) works so well. I run KDE 4.1 with compiz and emerald with all the bells and whistles and things run smoothly. Only gripe I have is OpenOffice messes up the taskbar, etc - though that’s a known issue and not so much an OpenOffice problem but the underlying graphics libraries.
