Re: woody/2.4.18/XFree4.1 slow?
Probably should have sent this to the list rather than me directly.
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:00:33 -0500
"Lance Heller" <lheller@ttsi-tul.com> wrote:
> Yes my observations are entirely subjective but the difference has
> been so obvious that objective measurements weren't required to
> establish a deterioration. Window operations are noticeably slower
> on both the Nvidia GeForce 2 MX and Matrox Millennium driven boxes
> with lock-ups requiring reboot not uncommon. As I've just brought
> these boxes up there's not been a lot of testing but the behavior
> was so similar between the two very different hosts that I thought
> I must be missing something, particularly as no one else appeared to
> have a problem. The installations are plain-jane Debian using only
> Debian selected and provided nv and mga drivers. The kernel for the
> dual cpu box was rebuilt in a manner consistent with it's Potato
> incarnation for SMP.
My experience with both of these stock X drivers (mga and nv) is that much
better performance can be attained using the drivers from the
manufacturer.
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Jamin W. Collins
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