[arch-general] problem with video driver ?

[Xavier Chantry]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:50 PM,  <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Today I installed Arch on my desktop which previously had Fedora.
> All works well except
>
>  ssh -X zita2 emacs
>
> where zita2 is my laptop.
>
> It works, but it is ex tre me ly slow, I can count
> the lines being displayed when scrolling a page.
> This used to work perfectly before.
> Other apps doing quite intensive X work don't seem
> to be affected. OTOH, the emacs running on the laptop
> is of course the same as before.
>
> Video driver is 'nv', but it doesn't show up in lsmod.
> Some others do: 'drm' and 'ttm' which I haven't seen
> before. As far as I was able to find out, 'drm' is
> related to 3D-acceleration. I don't need nor want this,
> and I'm suspecting it could be related to the problem
> I'm seeing.
>
> Any hints/help will be appreciated !
>

Are you sure you were using nv on fedora ? nv is indeed extremely slow.
Fedora 11 apparently used nouveau as default :
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauAsDefault
You can also install it easily on Arch, just have a look at
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau