On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:03:45 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: > Motor wrote: > >> No, the display is fine. I tried setting things up with >> system-config-display, but it made no difference. Everything is >> working, it's just a slower than FC4 -- but, it seems, only with >> GTK/GNOME apps. The slowdown doesn't happen with lyx-qt or nedit... >> that's why I suspect that the use of Cairo is the culprit. > > I just read the info for cairo about it being a vector graphics library. > > I guess your card is using Mesa emulation instead of DRI. (or something > like that) No, uses DRI (according to /var/log/Xorg.0.log) and GLX... it can also run stuff like Quake 3 at a respectable speed. > If you reduced your resolution and color depth, does performance > increase? Not really. I used to use 1152x900 with 16 bit colour. I reduced it to 1024x768 with no noticeable difference. > I'll test speed on the Intel 815 later to see if it is noticeably slower > than /fc4. > > Sorry not helpful for your problem. Any information is helpful.
