Nvidia 185 driver delivers horrendous performance on Karmic

[Craig Cabrey]

lspci | grep -i nvidia: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300] (rev a1)

In 9.04, the proprietary driver worked just fine with compiz or other compositing window managers. In Karmic, it is slow incredibly slow that the computer is not usable and desktop effects need to be turned off. Artifacts are also produced all over the screen. If it is of any help, I can record a video of this happening. Also, I have tried all the different versions of the drivers offered by jockey, but to no avail.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 9 23:27:47 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D620
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-glx-185 185.18.36-0ubuntu4
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-13-generic root=UUID=3065fbda-f7d5-42c2-b152-08d2b2591d5b ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.43-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu2
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu3
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 12/18/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A07
dmi.board.name: 0JK187
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA07:bd12/18/2006:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD620:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0JK187:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude D620
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-13-generic

[Craig Cabrey (cabrey)]

Also would like to add that metacity works just fine when in compositing mode.

[Craig Cabrey (cabrey)]

Issue fixed by patching the nvidia kernel module (patch is from bug #391461)