Slow and sluggish

[srikar]

I installed Mageia 2 on my Asus G51JX laptop having an Intel i5, nVidia 360M and 4 GB of RAM. The whole OS experience seems sluggish, graphics and transitions are very slow and chopped on both nv and nvidia proprietary drivers (I can't use the Nvidia drivers for long they cause a complete freeze on my laptop, so am forced to run nv drivers. This happens on all distros including ROSA 2012, Ubuntu 12.04, Mandriva 2011 and now Mageia 2). The laptop is pretty snappy on Mandriva 2011 on the same nv driver. I tried both the desktop and desktop-586 kernels on Mageia and still experience the slowness.

Any ideas to improve performance would be appreciated. Thanks.

[alf]

I installed Mageia 2 on my Asus G51JX laptop having an Intel i5, nVidia 360M and 4 GB of RAM. The whole OS experience seems sluggish, graphics and transitions are very slow and chopped on both nv and nvidia proprietary drivers (I can't use the Nvidia drivers for long they cause a complete freeze on my laptop, so am forced to run nv drivers. This happens on all distros including ROSA 2012, Ubuntu 12.04, Mandriva 2011 and now Mageia 2). The laptop is pretty snappy on Mandriva 2011 on the same nv driver. I tried both the desktop and desktop-586 kernels on Mageia and still experience the slowness.

Any ideas to improve performance would be appreciated. Thanks.

Do You use KDE with desktop-effects enabled? In this case try using Xrender instead of OpenGL. Maybe it helps.

[zugunder]

Make sure your nVidia card is active. Intel drivers are indeed are much worse with OpenGL than Xrender.
You also may be interested in this (in case the video is not a problem):
http://dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-system-debugging-super.html