Chris Ridd wrote:
> John Martin wrote:
>> Chris Ridd wrote:
>>> I'm noticing that my 2 machines running snv_91 appear to be running
>>> quite slowly compared to snv_90.
>>>
>>> In particular, moving windows around on screen shows background
>>> windows (eg gnome-terminal, firefox, thunderbird) repainting
>>> themselves very slowly.
>>>
>>> The desktop box has an Nvidia NV43GL [Quadro FX 540] card, and X is
>>> using the nvidia driver.
>>>
>> b91 upgraded the NVIDIA graphics driver from 169.12 to 173.14.05 (b90).
>> For the Quadro FX 540, you can try isolating the driver by removing the
>> packages NVDAgraphics and NVDAgraphicsr and installing the ones from
>> the b90 media.
>
> There's no NVDAgraphicsr package currently installed, or visible at
> <http://pkg.opensolaris.org/status>, but I can certainly try downgrading
> to the NVDAgraphics 0.90 package.
The root and /usr pages were merged into a single package for IPS
for most packages in Solaris, since IPS doesn't need to keep them
seperate for zones/diskless support as SVR4 packages did, so the
IPS NVDAgraphics includes the contents of both the NVDAgraphicsr
and NVDAgraphics SVR4 packages.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
