[arch-general] problem with video driver ?

[Xavier Chantry]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:46 PM,  <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
>
> Meanwhile I installed nouveau. The only difference I notice
> is that now the 'visual bell' in xterm has become very slow
> as well (to the point of being unusable), also locally.
>

I suspect you did not install it properly and were running in noaccel mode.
But since you solved your ssh X forwarding problem, and are happy with
nv, you can keep using that.
If you are still curious about nouveau, you have to install
nouveau-drm, xf86-video-nouveau (and nouveau-firmware if you have a
GF8 or newer), edit xorg.conf , and then provide dmesg and Xorg logs.