On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith@ieee.org wrote:
From: Robin Mordasiewicz robin@bullseye.tv
I have an excellent nvidia graphics card, I get excellent fps, all agp features are installed correctly etc.
In Windows or Linux? And by "all agp features are installed correctly," what do you mean and how are you getting this?
[root@zephyr config]# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status Status: Enabled Driver: NVIDIA AGP Rate: 4x Fast Writes: Enabled SBA: Enabled
I get more than 9000FPS running glxgears so the card is doing well.
When I drag windows around wit hthe opaque settings on it leaves traces for a couple milliseconds as it redraws the window, but it just looks so crummy to see.
Hmmm, sounds like a window manager/environment issue, unless you're having a video card issue (see below). What is your desktop environment?
People make judgements on this type of thing and they think that linux is slow compared to Windows. When I had windows installed on this same machine dragging windows around did not produce any traces.
When you say opaque, do you mean translucent but 0% in Linux? Sometimes people enable this feature not realizing that you're adding a massive amount of overhead to the software framebuffer of the window manager.
I mean by showing the window contents while dragging.