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Old 14th July 2008
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Default KDE very sluggish...

Hey all

I installed FreeBSD 7.0, rebuilt world, kernel, installed X from source and finally installed KDE from ports... I set the effects in KDE to very minimal... Yet KDE is extremely sluggish...

Please note that KDE works really fine with Linux distros and with DesktopBSD/PCBSD...

Anyone has an idea what's wrong??
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What is your videocard, what video driver you use?


P.S. I prefer to use gnome apps on top of FVWM (i'm avoiding KDE as much as possible)
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Old 14th July 2008
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Thanks a lot for the reply...

Nvidia GeForce Go 6800

About the driver, when configuring X I asked it to install nv, agp, and mesa, dunno which one is it using though... how do find out?
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OK, you need to install nvidia driver from ports:
Code:
cd /usr/ports/nvidia-driver
sudo make install clean
and you need to edit your xorg.conf file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf


Code:
Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.

    Load        "dbe"  	# Double buffer extension


# This loads the font modules
    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"
#    Load        "xtt"

# This loads the GLX module
    Load       "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
    Load       "dri"		#not nessacery
	Load	"bitmap"
	Load	"extmod"


	Load	"GLcore"	#not nessacery
EndSection


Section "Files"


    FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
    FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"


EndSection


Section "ServerFlags"


EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier	"Keyboard1"
    Driver	"kbd"

    Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"


    Option "XkbRules"	"xorg"
    Option "XkbModel"	"pc101"
    Option "XkbLayout"	"lv"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier	"Mouse1"
    Driver	"mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "Auto"	# Auto detect
    Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"


    Option "ZAxisMapping"   "4 5 6 7"

EndSection


Section "Monitor"

    Identifier  "Samsung Monitor"

    HorizSync   31.5 - 82.0
    VertRefresh 40-150

EndSection


Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Nvidia"
    Driver      "nvidia"
	Option "NvAgp"	"3"
    #VideoRam    262144
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "Nvidia"
    Monitor     "Samsung Monitor"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier  "Simple Layout"

    Screen "Screen 1"

    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection

# Section "DRI"
#    Mode 0666
# EndSection
here's my xorg.conf file
I marked red lines you should change in your xorg.conf

I might forgot something, but eh, ask and i will answer


also if you compile custom kernel, then leave device agp commented

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Old 14th July 2008
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if youre using freebsd 7/amd64, youre pretty much screwed with nvidia cards. install the i386 build and it should work fine.
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Old 15th July 2008
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@killasmurf

Thanks a lot... Unfortunately my Internet connection is dead right now (I'm writing this from work..), once I get the connection back, I'll try that and see if it works...

Thanks again for the explanation..

@LateNiteTV

Thanks for the tip, I'm using the i386 version already...
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