[arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

[Pico Geyer]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Pico Geyer <picogeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi damjan,
>>
>> Here we go:
>> direct rendering: Yes
>> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301)
>>     GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend,
>>
>> Pico
>
> You're using software rendering. No wonder it's slow.
>
> What's your video card? Are the drivers installed?
> How do you start gnome? startx? GDM?

Oh, I didn't realize.
llvm-pipe = software rendering?

I thought all I had to do was install xf86-video-nouveau.
I start GDM with the inittab method:
x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon

The graphics card seems to be a nvidia NVS 3100M
Here's the line from lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218
[NVS 3100M] [10de:0a6c] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Thanks for your help.
Pico