Overall slow down of Linux distros on nvidia based systems

Hi,
I understand that there is a slow response with NVIDIA GPU Based systems esp Ubuntu and other Linux distros.this is highly observed in 8xxx and 9xxx series?

you may try latest 177.13 beta driver.It is better
*www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=114955

else a workaround shown on nvnet and ubuntu forums is to add

on your /etc/X11/xorg.conf section "driver" .

I read that this may not work with 3D compiz/beryl or aiglx/xgl.

Option "PixmapCacheSize" "200000"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True" # Experimental
Option "BackingStore" "True" # Experimental

And i wrote sudo nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1 in a terminal
As was mentioned in the 173.08 beta release, 173.14.05 contains support for an experimental glyph cache on the GeForce 8 and 9 series that may improve anti-aliased font rendering performance. This support can be enabled by running nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1.

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(from the thread)

*ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=779088

also consider reading this thread:
*www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=115536

Now I think Intel,AMD/ATi got lesser problems than the nvidia systems obviously.

How to install nvidia driver setup we download from nvidia ftp?

irrelevant of which distro ,u need to have gcc,libc6-dev,make,linux-headers or linux-(kernel name)-devel etc installed.for Debian based distros like Ubuntu ,you can apt-get install build-essential which essentially bundles all of this.

next ,check the gcc version of which your linux kernel is compiled.
use for the info.

if it is compiled with gcc-4.3 , you have to make sure the symlink /usr/bing/gcc points towards gcc-4.3. or use env variable CC=gcc-4.3 in this example.

now 'chmod+x NVIDIA--.sh ' and as sudo or su ,start with "./NVIDIA--.sh" .Hopefully it will build the module fine. next "rmmode nvidia && modprobe nvidia" module.

with Debian distros ,make use of module-assistant which can make the nvidia module easily.

Hope this helps