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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050606/59cb1441/attachment-0004.sig>