nvidia 256.35 driver is slow and renders elements incorrectly
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cairo (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: xorg
I use 64-bit laptop with geforce 9500m, and I upgraded lately to maverick.
The system became very sluggish and unresponsive, even after removing all ubuntu-one related horrors. Compiz animations stutter and window contents are being drawn slowly. Moreover, there are elements the system fails to paint correctly with the nvdia driver (probably gradient-related):
1. Selected menu items and progress bars are brighter then they should be.
2. The lovely glowing dots below docky icons, which mark which app is being ran, became ugly grey blobs.
Screenshots are attached with nouveau (correct rendering) and nvidia (incorrect rendering) on the same system.
I know we cannot fix the nvidia driver mess, but can we please have an option of downgrading to 195 series? It worked perfectly well in lucid.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
.proc.driver.
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 256.35 Wed Jun 16 18:42:44 PDT 2010
GCC version: gcc version 4.4.5 20100728 (prerelease) (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-8ubuntu1)
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 2 18:22:00 2010
DkmsStatus:
nvidia-current, 256.35, 2.6.35-13-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 256.35, 2.6.32-24-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-173, 173.14.27, 2.6.35-13-generic, x86_64: installed
bcmwl, 5.60.48.36+bdcom, 2.6.35-13-generic, x86_64: installed
bcmwl, 5.60.48.36+bdcom, 2.6.32-24-generic, x86_64: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio XPS 1340
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 09/08/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 0K183D
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A11
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Studio XPS 1340
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: maverick
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.35-13-generic
Upgrating the nvidia drivers to 256.44 from the ubuntu-x-swat-x ppa did not solve the issues.