Re: hp laptop with nvidia - slow X11

2015-06-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Alexandre, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: Sorry, I don't know. I got mine while debugging the vesa bits of a boot loader. Try increasing X log verbosity. Or possibly guess it from the output of memconfig list, it's likely to be the only variable-length entry large around 256GB-512GB, with ending

Re: hp laptop with nvidia - slow X11

2015-06-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:37:34PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi Alexandre, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: Acceleration is not needed on modern machines to get fast 2D display. The CPU speed and memory bandwidth are largely sufficient to make desktop very responsive and watch full-screen

Re: hp laptop with nvidia - slow X11

2015-06-17 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Alexandre, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: Acceleration is not needed on modern machines to get fast 2D display. The CPU speed and memory bandwidth are largely sufficient to make desktop very responsive and watch full-screen movies. Probably what you observe is that the video memory is setup in a

Re: hp laptop with nvidia - slow X11

2015-06-17 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Mike, Mike Small wrote: Just to be sure nv doesn't support exa with this card did you try being explicit about it? I have an NVIDIA_NVS_3100M and thought for the longest time I was in the boat of needing nouveau or changes to nv but the following xorg.conf got me past the slowness (in 5.6):

Re: hp laptop with nvidia - slow X11

2015-06-16 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:19:13PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, for the same laptop for which I just posted a full dmesg about the battery problem, which reports this video card: vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS rev 0xa1 I get a super-slow X11. Dragging an

Re: hp laptop with nvidia - slow X11

2015-06-16 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:19:13PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, for the same laptop for which I just posted a full dmesg about the battery problem, which reports this video card: vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS rev 0xa1 I get a super-slow X11. Dragging an

Re: hp laptop with nvidia - slow X11

2015-06-15 Thread STeve Andre'
On 06/15/15 17:19, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, for the same laptop for which I just posted a full dmesg about the battery problem, which reports this video card: vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS rev 0xa1 I get a super-slow X11. Dragging an xterm may take half a second, up

hp laptop with nvidia - slow X11

2015-06-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, for the same laptop for which I just posted a full dmesg about the battery problem, which reports this video card: vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS rev 0xa1 I get a super-slow X11. Dragging an xterm may take half a second, up to the point where X11 looses track of the