Ron Johnson wrote:
On 07/12/08 02:00, Nick Lidakis wrote:Ron Johnson wrote:The "inner" scroll region? No sluggishness or slowdown. Noticeable CPU usage by /usr/bin/X11/X when I rapidly jerk the scroll bar up and down, but that's normal.Are ya using the NV or Nvidia driver?Sorry. The nvidia driver.I forgot to ask if you were running a high resolution monitor, perhaps 1600x1200 or greater? Are you running any of the 3d accelerated desktop, or regular 2d window manager?A y2k-vintage Gateway VX1120 (Hitachi Diamondtron flat-screen CRT) at 1280x1024 with GNOME & Metacity. (I see no reason to waste resources on eye candy.)
Tonight I tried the sluggish website I mentioned in an earlier post (http://www.tempus-vivit.net/taverne/thema/935), but at a 1280x1024 resolution. Better, still sluggish, but not the molasses that 1600x1200 was. Dropping down to 1024x768, things were very snappy and the sluggishness was completely gone.
I'm giving up on the Nvdia cards. Seems I'm not the only one having serious issues with 2D support with their latest driver series. I'm glad to say that I on;y paid $12 USD for the Quadro card on eBay.
I picked up a lower end ATI 3650 after doing some reading online. Didn't realize AMD/ATI were releasing specs to the open source developers, with Novell even writing drivers on AMD's behalf.