Nvidia Drivers from RPMfusion working, but slow in F14

sgarrity · #1 3rd November 2010, 06:26 PM

After upgrading from Fedora 13 to 14 via preupgrade (works well), the nvidia drivers for my "nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2)" (it's a ThinkPad T410S) work - including 3D, but every thing paints slowly.

The Desktop Effects work, but everything visual (menus painting, dragging windows, etc.) are all noticeably slow (and worked fine in F13).

Suggestions?

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Update - apparently this issue is related to the GTK theme in use. The default (Fedora, or Clearlooks, or a few others) results in this slow behaviour. Other themes, like Nodoka and a few others perform fine.

So, my desktop is fast again, but a bit uglier now...

johnrdavisjr · #2 3rd November 2010, 06:29 PM

Funny thing, I installed the AMD drivers for my Radeon HD 5145 and I am experiencing the same slow painting bug.

Vendaval · #3 3rd November 2010, 09:57 PM

... Same here. F14 + NVidia.

Boot message:

Quote:

ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so: undefined symbol: xstrtokenize

Greetings,

MASHtm · #4 3rd November 2010, 09:59 PM

Same here on F14 with GT240 after preupgrade from F13.

I noticed some further oddities....

*) using emerald with some vrunner themes leeds to white background for window titles if "glow" is active.
*) pushbuttons are painted wrong if pressed (wrong colors on left and top).. eg. in the logout or shutdown dialogs or bookmark toolbar in firefox
*) even X crashes are possible, too

There is no difference between 260.19.12 rpmfusion rpms or nvidia native driver package.

Regards, MASHtm

JClosed · #5 3rd November 2010, 10:44 PM

Hmm - no problem here, but I do not use desktop effects.

Some strange things DO happen tough. When using Azureus/Vuze it is guaranteed you will suffer an severe crash as soon as it is started up. The screen turns black and X does a complete restart. You have to log in again after the crash.

I still have to test how 3D apps like games will behave.

wojox · #6 3rd November 2010, 10:48 PM

No problems here. I have GeForce 6150 with F14, fresh install.

CronoCloud · #7 3rd November 2010, 11:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vendaval

... Same here. F14 + NVidia.

Boot message: ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so: undefined symbol: xstrtokenize

Yes, I'm seeing that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by wojox

No problems here. I have GeForce 6150 with F14, fresh install.

6150SE here as well, but everything seems fine.

Ron Rogers Jr. (CronoCloud)

Cuvou · #8 3rd November 2010, 11:10 PM

I did a fresh install of F14 and got the kmod-nvidia from rpmfusion, but it didn't install properly. After a reboot I had a basic 800x600 resolution, had to run nvidia-xconfig to setup Xorg.conf but there was no 3D acceleration then. Added extra options to xorg.conf manually to get 3D to work fine though.

@MASHtm: I saw the push button graphical glitches as well and posted about them here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=253637 with screenshot

geolab · #9 4th November 2010, 08:42 AM

same problem here with f14 and nvidia geforce 310m . gnome-shell gets slow after a few minutes working

natros · #10 4th November 2010, 03:23 PM

i have the same problem. i installed F14 on a 32bit and 64bit machine and both have the same problem.

using gome and nvidia 8800gt

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i have the same problem. i installed F14 on a 32bit and 64bit machine and both have the same problem.

using gome and nvidia 8800gt

Cuvou · #11 5th November 2010, 03:58 AM

Azureus/Vuze crashes X11 for me too.

JClosed · #12 5th November 2010, 09:10 AM

When installing the nvidia drivers I had the same problems as Cuvou is mentioning, but the install guide (elsewhere on this forum) is already made up to date, so the solution is clearly mentioned.

I foud out he Azureus/Vuze crash is not tied to Fedora. I tried the newer (260.x.x) drivers on Mandriva (2010.1), and have the same problem. As a result I think the crash is tied to the nvidia drivers and/or their combination with Vuze/Azureus. I am not sure ho has to solve the problem, but I suspect the arrow is pointing mainly to the nvidia driver maintainers.

I am happy to say 3D acceleration seems to work fine. I have installed X3-reunion (a space trading, exploring and fighting game with a bit demanding graphics), and the game works without any problem.

I do not haven any slowness anywhere, but I must say I am working with the KDE desktop. Maybe the slowness is related with the Gnome desktop? I think I am going to install the Gnome desktop environment a little later this day and take a closer look.

tsilis · #13 5th November 2010, 12:52 PM

The same here. Gnome freezes from time to time especialy when i run empathy.
nvidia 8600gt
boot message

Code:

Checking for module nvidia.ko: 	[  OK  ]
Enabling the nvidia driver: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 28, in <module>
    import livnaConfigDisplay.ConfigDisplay
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/ConfigDisplay.py", line 29, in <module>
    import xf86config
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xf86config.py", line 1, in <module>
    import ixf86config
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so: undefined symbol: xstrtokenize
	[FAILED]

jefernandez · #14 6th November 2010, 10:13 AM

Hi

It's seems that nvidia module can not be loaded... instead System load nouveau driver...
This is the reason that 3D is too slow.

Waiting for solution on rpm repos...

skyxn3t · #15 8th November 2010, 04:31 AM

I did a fresh install of Fedora 14, after installing the nvidia rpmfusion drivers from leighs guide I noticed that with compiz enabled everything is lagging, browser scrolling, moving windows, changing workspaces, etc... lags. I did not have this problem with Fedora 13, is this a common bug in Fedora 14? If so is there a solution?