Re: [Fedora 12] NVida drivers from

Hello Everyone I have the following RPM's installed on my fully updated Fedora 12 system: kmod-nvidia.x86_64 190.42-1.fc12.4 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 190.42-2.fc12 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 190.42-2.fc12 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates- testing I followed the directions contained at http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-0a6074ea13626b48d876f75be3ae971044b0 019e the appropriate part for me being: > Fedora 12 > Note: nVidia currently doesn't support cards older than Geforce6 on the > xorg-x11-server used by Fedora 12. Please verify that the nouveau driver > will fit your needs while upgrading. > > In order to keep compatibility with nouveau, you need to recreate the > initrd manually after the driver has been installed. > > su - > mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname > -r)-nouveau.img dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) > Before using the driver, you need to lower your system protection so > SElinux doesn't prevent the driver to load. > > setsebool -P allow_execstack on I did not need to follow the part about SElinux, because I have that disabled. My problem is that now certain (as opposed to all) things seem to be a lot less responsive than they used to be. I am comparing running the NVidia driver from rpmfusion under Fedora 11 to my current Fedora 12 setup. I had NEVER seen even the little annoyances that I am going to describe... I am running the KDE that ships with Fedora 12. When I press "Alt | F2", the "Run Command" box takes about 10 seconds to appear. If I type "konsole" in the "Run Command" box, it takes 5 or more seconds to start. Until "Run Command" comes up, I have to wait before I can use the computer for anything else. I have just disabled "Desktop Effects" and there is no change to this behavior. Again, I never had this problem with Fedora 11. Also, I did not have this problem on Fedora 12 until I installed the NVidia driver from rpmfusion. If there is an easy way to restart my system without the rpmfusion NVidia driver, I will be glad to try that and see if my problem goes away. I would rather not try to undo the following: > su - > mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname > -r)-nouveau.img dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) As far as my system is concerned... Processor: Intel Xeon 2Ghz QuadCore Memory: 8 Gigabytes Video Card: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1) The video card itself has 512MB of memory. Also, only about 806MB of RAM is being used right now, and my four cores are running MOSTLY around 0%, with one of them spiking for a moment or so up to about 10-12%. So it's not like my system is seriously overloaded :) But again, with this same exact system, I never have seen an issue like this under Fedora 11, or before I installed the NVidia drivers from rpmfusion-updates-testing. Steven P. Ulrick