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A Use for NVidia

July 21, 2008 in tech by Seb

The world has seen a significant amount of complaining about NVidia cards (the 8600 has had it’s fair share of whippings).
However, I’ve come to a great realisation:
with my exceptionally slow nvidia card I can see absolutely every draw that occurs on the screen. Great for debugging paint events, and no need to export QT_FLUSH_PAINT=1.
All you [...]

nvidia performance problems (again)

April 14, 2008 in tech by Seb

It’s that never ending story once again. Upgrade the video card, suffer extreme performance loss in the desktop:

swap nvidia 7900 card for 8600 (a meager upgrade, but still)
notice the desktop has dramatically slowed down (expected)
recompile the newest nvidia kernel drivers
reboot, and to no avail, no performance increase
repeat steps 3 and 4, each time tweaking something [...]