Comment 7 for bug 13597

After reading the posts in the forums, you're correct in that there's nothing
wrong with the nvidia drivers.

Someone mentioned that it's an issue to do with Gnome/GTX+ and I will agree.

Today I installed Kubuntu (the full monty) from the Ubuntu reposity and I logged
onto KUbuntu and I'm posting this update to the bug from Firefox in Kubuntu and
it is smooth, no slow down that I get using gdm.

When I run Kterminal (KDE's terminal) and maximise it and run top - you can see
xorg is taking 0.1% CPU at most during top updates.

When I run Gterminal (Gnome terminal) in KDE and maximise it and run top - xorg
is taking 15% to refresh screen when top updates.

Thus this bug is now wrongly named as it's not just an issue with nvidia but
with Gnome/GLX+ - they are taking up too much CPU resources and making no use of
2D accerelation

I don't like Kubuntu to be honest, but until Gnome can be made to use 2D
accleration, I'll have to stick with kdm.