I have an excellent nvidia graphics card, I get excellent fps, all agp features are installed correctly etc.
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.
I am having a hard time convincing people that using linux is a good idea.
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.
Using linux on the desktop looks like a throwback to windows 95 on a 486.
Does anyone have any advice on how to make X redraw windows better.
Are you using the x.org driver (nv) or the nvidia one?
I've tried nvidia driver with RENDER extension and XFCE development version on __gentoo__, and moving transparent windows were "smooth".
However I'd not use such a setup on a serious machine (which CentOS is fine for). (Maybe only the nvidia driver but without the RENDER extension).
-- sukru
Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
I have an excellent nvidia graphics card, I get excellent fps, all agp features are installed correctly etc.
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.
I am having a hard time convincing people that using linux is a good idea.
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.
Using linux on the desktop looks like a throwback to windows 95 on a 486.
Does anyone have any advice on how to make X redraw windows better.
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Sukru TIKVES wrote:
Are you using the x.org driver (nv) or the nvidia one? I've tried nvidia driver with RENDER extension and XFCE development version on __gentoo__, and moving transparent windows were "smooth". However I'd not use such a setup on a serious machine (which CentOS is fine for). (Maybe only the nvidia driver but without the RENDER extension).
I am using the nvidia driver, with XFree86 centos3.4 Moving windows is mostly smooth, not all applications leave traces as X redraws, but I have a dual 3gig machine with a top nvidia card. Also when resizing windows it seems to redraw much slower than windows.
As far as I know there are significant speed improvements between xorg and XFree86 servers, but I may be wrong.
I guess CentOS is not suited for desktop machines, you may try your chance with the upcoming FC4 release. (No, i am not talking about workstations).
[ Btw, my machine was Athlon XP 2800+ with GeForce FX 5200. Linux install was smooth as in Windows 95 smooth on a P4. ]
Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Sukru TIKVES wrote:
Are you using the x.org driver (nv) or the nvidia one? I've tried nvidia driver with RENDER extension and XFCE development version on __gentoo__, and moving transparent windows were "smooth". However I'd not use such a setup on a serious machine (which CentOS is fine for). (Maybe only the nvidia driver but without the RENDER extension).
I am using the nvidia driver, with XFree86 centos3.4 Moving windows is mostly smooth, not all applications leave traces as X redraws, but I have a dual 3gig machine with a top nvidia card. Also when resizing windows it seems to redraw much slower than windows. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 18:04 +0300, Sukru TIKVES wrote:
As far as I know there are significant speed improvements between xorg and XFree86 servers, but I may be wrong.
I guess CentOS is not suited for desktop machines, you may try your chance with the upcoming FC4 release. (No, i am not talking about workstations).
CentOS-4 has xorg-x11-6.8.1 ... works very well with my FX 5200 and the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174 driver
[ Btw, my machine was Athlon XP 2800+ with GeForce FX 5200. Linux install was smooth as in Windows 95 smooth on a P4. ]
Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Sukru TIKVES wrote:
Are you using the x.org driver (nv) or the nvidia one? I've tried nvidia driver with RENDER extension and XFCE development version on __gentoo__, and moving transparent windows were "smooth". However I'd not use such a setup on a serious machine (which CentOS is fine for). (Maybe only the nvidia driver but without the RENDER extension).
I am using the nvidia driver, with XFree86 centos3.4 Moving windows is mostly smooth, not all applications leave traces as X redraws, but I have a dual 3gig machine with a top nvidia card. Also when resizing windows it seems to redraw much slower than windows.
On 6/6/05, Robin Mordasiewicz robin@bullseye.tv wrote:
I am using the nvidia driver, with XFree86 centos3.4 Moving windows is mostly smooth, not all applications leave traces as X redraws, but I have a dual 3gig machine with a top nvidia card. Also when resizing windows it seems to redraw much slower than windows.
Which "desktop environment" are you using? I mostly use crappy hardware and XFCE and it works well enough for me.
Greg
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Greg Knaddison wrote:
On 6/6/05, Robin Mordasiewicz robin@bullseye.tv wrote:
I am using the nvidia driver, with XFree86 centos3.4 Moving windows is mostly smooth, not all applications leave traces as X redraws, but I have a dual 3gig machine with a top nvidia card. Also when resizing windows it seems to redraw much slower than windows.
Which "desktop environment" are you using? I mostly use crappy hardware and XFCE and it works well enough for me.
kde, but the all k* apps seem ok. It seems like firefox, acrobat reader etc which are not part of kde seem to be more sluggish for redrawing.
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