On 8/18/07, Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
Hello:
I recently installed Etch on my new system and found X performance to be
sluggish, particularly when using Iceape. It appears as if there is little or
no hardware acceleration, remeniscent of a K7 with a slow graphics card. While
scrolling a web page down (but never up), or moving windows the display
sometimes freezes for about one second or more, with up to 100% CPU utilization.
My hardware is a K8M800 chipset motherboard with an Athlon64 X2 5000+ and Radeon
7500. I have tested all recent kernels up to and including linux 2.6.23-rc3.
All kernel and enabled X performance options are enabled, e.g. DRI, GLX, AGP,
on-CPU GART, color tiling. The same graphics card had much better performance
with Sarge even without acceleration.
Have you tried turning off some of the acceleration options?
For example turning off aiglx, or trying exe vs xaa vs noaccel.
Cheers,
Kelly