jsgarvin
January 21st, 2010, 06:37 PM
I installed Karmic back in November. At the time I had dual 19" displays, and easily got them working with the Nvidia drivers. For Compiz, under System/Preferences/Appearance/Visual Effects, it was set to the default of "Normal". All worked fine. No problems.
Then, I upgraded in mid December to dual 22" Wide Screen monitors and adjusted the X server settings to for the new resolution on the two monitors.
At that point, if I rebooted or logged out and back in, *usually* windows and menus would open or drag extremely sluggishly, and before long the computer would lock up. If (before it locked up), I logged out and back in (usually just once, but sometimes repeatedly), the problem would eventually clear itself and everything would run great until the next time I logged out or rebooted.
I did some searching around for anybody else having similar issues and that's when I got the idea to turn off the Compiz Visual Effects. That totally solved the problem. Now, I never have slugging window issues.
What I find curious is that, when I had compiz turned on with the 19" monitors, with all other hardware and drivers being the same, all was fine, and even with the new monitors, eventually I was able to get things to run smoothly simply by logging out and back in.
I certainly don't need the Compiz visual effects turned on and am perfectly fine with them being turned off. However, I thought maybe somebody might have an idea of what's going on that would allow me to turn Compiz back on. Or, at the very least, maybe a detailed description of my experience might help any developers of Compiz and/or the NVidia drivers that stumble across it here make improvements.
Then, I upgraded in mid December to dual 22" Wide Screen monitors and adjusted the X server settings to for the new resolution on the two monitors.
At that point, if I rebooted or logged out and back in, *usually* windows and menus would open or drag extremely sluggishly, and before long the computer would lock up. If (before it locked up), I logged out and back in (usually just once, but sometimes repeatedly), the problem would eventually clear itself and everything would run great until the next time I logged out or rebooted.
I did some searching around for anybody else having similar issues and that's when I got the idea to turn off the Compiz Visual Effects. That totally solved the problem. Now, I never have slugging window issues.
What I find curious is that, when I had compiz turned on with the 19" monitors, with all other hardware and drivers being the same, all was fine, and even with the new monitors, eventually I was able to get things to run smoothly simply by logging out and back in.
I certainly don't need the Compiz visual effects turned on and am perfectly fine with them being turned off. However, I thought maybe somebody might have an idea of what's going on that would allow me to turn Compiz back on. Or, at the very least, maybe a detailed description of my experience might help any developers of Compiz and/or the NVidia drivers that stumble across it here make improvements.