Steve Snyder <swsnyder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I installed FC4 yesterday, and I find the desktop behavior to be a little > sluggish compared to FC3. > > I did a clean install, formatting my previous (FC3) partitions and > installing FC4. After the installation completed successfully, I > installed the current set of updates via YUM. No problems seen. > > This machine is a 1000MHz Pentium3, with 512MB of RAM, a 40GB ATA hard > disk, and a GeForce2 Ultra video card. Hardly state of the art, but I'm > seeting generally sluggish behavior on my KDE desktop even doing trivial > things like navigating menus and opening terminal windows. > > On installation, the only difference in choices versus the prior FC3 > install was to opt for SELinux=warn, where I had it disabled altogether > in FC3. The KDE desktop and Xorg configurations were the same in FC3 as > my current FC4. > > Anyone else care to comment on the relative desktop performance on FC4? I'm DEFINITELY noticing sluggish behavior in all X apps. My hardware is fairly modern (AMD64 3200, though only an nvidia geforce4 4200). I've observed the same problem both with the X.org nv driver and nvidia's binary-only driver. The box itself is quite fast otherwise, but something in X definitely is amiss. I'm also running in x86_64 mode; I suspect it is a universal issue. Chip -- Chip Turner cturner@xxxxxxxxxxx
