Xorg 1.9.0 + nvidia 256.53 Performance Regression

Question

Just thought I'd share in-case anyone else has this issue.
PROBLEM:
After upgrading to xorg-server 1.9.0 I noticed text rendering was painfully sluggish,
this effect was most noticeable in my terminals (urxvt), when drawing text from
IRC or scrolling other text output.
I found the issue discussed here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … 563&page=4
and at the end the helpful Nvidia developer provided a fix
in Nvidia 260.19.06.
SOLUTION:
install aur/nvidia-beta (260.19.06)
which clears up the issue with nvidia slow text-rendering with xorg 1.9.0
thank the lord nvidia cares about linux users! (a little bit anyways)

Answer 1

I am having frequent Xorg crashes with the Nvidia beta driver. For instance, if I run Unetbootin or Skype is crashes as soon as I launch them. I figure this may be a combination of Xorg 1.9, Nvidia-beta, and qt 4.7.0-2.
I am beginning to think that this is because I have three monitors and dual cards.
╔═ comhack@Venus 11:13 AM
╚═══ ~-> lspci | grep VGA
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)
Also, I am running XMonad 0.9.1-8 and 64bit Arch if it helps.
Does anyone know when an update is coming to fix these issues?
Last edited by securitybreach (2010-10-06 15:22:43)