[PD] GEM - nvidia GeForce 6150SE with nvidia proprietary driver and ubuntu 8.10 hangs for number of seconds
John Harrison
john.harrison at alum.mit.edu
Sat Nov 22 23:37:58 CET 2008
Running the nvidia proprietary driver, ubuntu 8.10 64 bit (Kernel
2.6.27-8) an open and rending Gem window will hang the machine for
random periods of up to 30 seconds. Problem can be triggered by clicking
and dragging the GEM window with the mouse and trying to move the
window. CPU appears to be maxed out during that time. I tried NVIDIA
graphics driver version 96 and 177 and the results were the same. If I
switch to the open source nividia driver the problem disappears --- and
I enjoy 75% CPU usage showing only a live feed to a Gem window on a 4G
AMD 64bit dual core. ;-)
lspci describes my graphics card as an nVidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
(rev a2)
Besides using the open source driver, anybody know of a solution?
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John Harrison
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~harrison
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