Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 08/11/08 01:01, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> 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.

What color depth?
My card is an air-cooled

*Arrowing* down that page definitely isn't as fast as arrowing down 
a Slashdot page, but I'd attribute that to the page's extra 
complexity and the page down or grab the slider bar and not think a 
2nd thought about it.

While Googling and reading, I found this app:
http://gtkperf.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=main
http://gtkperf.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download

Here are my results:
$ gtkperf -c 1000
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Mon Aug 11 03:26:13 2008

GtkEntry - time:  0.85
GtkComboBox - time: 17.38
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 16.19
GtkSpinButton - time:  3.29
GtkProgressBar - time:  1.05
GtkToggleButton - time:  6.07
GtkCheckButton - time:  5.89
GtkRadioButton - time:  7.17
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 35.38
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 21.56
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time:  4.51
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time:  5.38
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time:  6.89
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time:  2.07
 ---
Total time: 133.68

Hardware
--------
Athlon 64 X2 4000+ 2GB RAM
GeForce 7300SE (G72) 128MB, 1280x1024x16

Software
--------
X.org        1:7.3
Nvidia       173.14.05
libgtk2.0-0  2.12.11-3
gnome-core   2.22.2~4
metacity     1:2.22.0-1

Note this screen print from 3.5 years ago.  Even factoring in that 
it did an order of magnitude fewer test cycles, it still seems 
faster than my card.
http://gtkperf.sourceforge.net/images/sc_main.png

> 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.

I'm loyal to the company that supported Linux when no other video 
card did.  But their newer cards just don't seem to do so well under 
Linux.

There's a good possibility that my next card will be ATI.

--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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