On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:29, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
> Well, good question :)
>
> The machine where metacity is slow runs a GeForce with the Nvidia
> ('nvidia' not 'nv') driver.
>
> The machine where metacity is fast runs a basic ATI card (Mach64 driver)
>
Make sure you are not using the latest nvidia drivers. The newest ones
have a 2d bug where things are drawn slowly. Downgrade to the ls 3xxx
series.
>
>
> Le mer 08/01/2003 à 19:25, Sven Luther a écrit :
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:02:27PM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
> > > Hello list and first of all, a very big THANKS to all of you who make
> > > Gnome2 possible on debian. It's really great.
> > >
> > > I've noticed that metacity is really slow to move a gnome-terminal
> > > window when transparency is enabled in the term. As soon as I disable
> > > transparency, it's faster.
> > >
> > > I wondering what is the source of the slow motion since I run gnome2 on
> > > another PC which is fast even when transparency is enabled. Strangely,
> > > the PC which is running the stuff well is the slower machine...
> > >
> > > Ant idea ?
> >
> > What about the graphic card ? Altough i don't know how gnome-terminal is
> > drawing when using transparency (alpha channel and double source
> > blitting come to mind) and maybe on one box this is being hardware
> > accelerated and on the other not.
> >
> > Also the resolution and depth of your displays may have some influence.
> > Not running XFree86 in full (2D) acceleration may be another concern.
> >
> > Friendly,
> >
> > Sven Luther
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> Alexis Sukrieh <alexis@sukria.net>
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