[CentOS] Slow graphics with ATI FirePro 2260

Thu Mar 24 22:46:04 UTC 2011
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>

----- Original Message -----
| Hello-
| 
| I installed CentOS 5.5 on a DELL Machine with ATI Firepro 2260
| graphics
| card. I'm using GNOME for the graphical environment but the display is
| refreshing very slowly, e.g. scrolling a webpage or moving a window
| around.
| Any idea how to solve this issue.
| 
| Regards,
| 
| Wael

Did you install the ATI proprietary driver?  If not, it is using software rendering and not hardware rendering.


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