On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 07:00 -0400, fredex wrote: > Hi! > > I just installed Centos 4.4 on a machine at work, yesterday. Mostly it > went well with just a couple of glitches. > > One of them is slow video performance. No, I'm not playing 3d games > at work! :) > > Scrolling/repainting terminal windows is plainly MUCH slower than it is > on my Centos 4.4 desktop at home. Machine at home is an Athlon XP 2600+ > with one gig of RAM. Machine at work is a P4 2.26 Ghz with a gig of RAM. > > Before Centos, the one at work had RHEL WS 2.1, which did not exhibit > the same issue. It was using KDE as the main desktop, while this time > it is (so far) set to use Gnome (as is the box at home). > > Scrolling through a big file with less, for example, you can watch it > paint the screen. Hitting 'B' to go back a screen is almost painful, > you see it scroll part of the screen down, slowly, then fill in each > line above that. > > It's the same hardware that was there before, the only thing that has > changed is the OS. > > Clues? Nope. But see here for confirmation, at least. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-August/068747.html It happens on my 1.8GHz Athlon (PR2200+) with a Radeon AGP at 4X, 128MB aperture too. I didn't post that one though. > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill