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Hey guys,

in my quest for forgetting windows and moving to linux i have found it to be a steep learning curve. however i have a new hurdle today. Well i'm using SuSE 9.0 and running my monitor @ 83Hz and at 1280 x 1024 resolution. Now i downloaded superkaramba and applied the tuxbar theme with smooth zoom. Its SLOW as hell with the smoothzoom. its laggy and jagged.I booted up in knoppix with the 1024x768 and it was really nice and fast. Also when i browse pages in firefox/mozilla/konquerer... it seems to be laggy and really jagged with SuSE @ the settings above. Its KDE 3.1 and i dont kno whats on Knoppix 3.3 (Thts the distro version). Any tweaking settings wud help. Also i'm using the same settings / themes on both. Then why is SuSE SLOW AS HECK with the GUI? Any help wud be appreciated. Cheers! :)

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Well i'm using GeForce MX 2 MX/440 and SuSE auto configured it i guess. i dont know about the drivers and all but the thing is its fast in Knoppix and slow on SuSE. Wht the hell? Do u think it might be the resolution? Or do u think its some setting that has to be tweaked with? Everything else seems to be fast.

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I'm not sure if super karamba uses any sort of 3d graphical accelleration, or other features that may not be enabled in your current configuration.

Can you run a glxgears test to do a quick basic check on your hardware. Maybe also try a glxinfo for a status of OpenGL capabilities.

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type in glxinfo in a terminal and if dri isn't enabled and x doesn't detect your video card and there isn't anything in it about your video card then it isn't enabled.

glxgears will only show you how fast it is working. if glxgears runs slow than most likely it isn't enabled. however it isn't definitive.

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When you've used YOU (YAST Online Update) have you checked the 'Download NVIDIA drivers' option, this automatically downloads and configures the 3D driver, just log out and back into X after installing. Also try the 3Ddiag command, this will tell you whether everything is working 3D wise.

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