hoffies blog

There still doesn’t seem to be a clear statement whether the latest nvidia-driver-100* series fixes/is supposed to fix the “beryl black window bug” (well, not only beryl, but compiz as well of course). Some nvidia engineer posted to nvnews.net that it is not supposed to be fixed, it will rather be fixed in a later release. At the same time there are user comments which state that they no longer experience the problem… So I decided to give those drivers a try (they are not yet in the official gentoo tree, but there is already an ebuild for it in bug 175674). Performance seemed to have dropped a bit, but I was not sure whether it was the driver’s fault or just the usual variation in performance when using compiz (“compcom”) live ebuilds… Anyway, there is a pretty interesting thread at nvnews.net where someone talks about some Xorg (and other) options which are supposed to improve performance for beryl etc. a bit: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1276594&postcount=10 And indeed, it made a big difference for me, it’s much faster than before (I only applied the suggestions for xorg.conf, no other things).