agpgart module, gui, and system responsivness

[Nick Lidakis]

I am currently running debian unstable on a dual p3 (1Ghz CPU's) tyan 
(via apollo pro 133a) motherboard for my daily computing needs when I'm 
home. I've been reluctant to upgrade because, well, it works and it's 
rock solid stable. But I have always noticed one annoying thing. Mozilla 
is slow. Slow as in, I can actually see the web images being drawn on 
the screen when it's loading web pages. I thought it was strange that 
Mozilla is much snappier on my 800mhz thinkpad X22(intel chipset) with 
only half the RAM. Both run kernel 2.4.20. The thinkpad with low-latency 
and preempt patches, the desktop with SMP support.

I compiled kernel 2.4.21 last night for the desktop machine , and for 
whatever reason, the agpgart module didn't load. DRI wasn't enabled, but 
when i fired up Mozilla it was much faster and rendering the pages. Just 
as fast, if not faster than my Thinkpad.

I googled around, but found nothing negative about agpgart. Could this 
be a consequnce of the VIA chipset? Is there something I'm missing? I 
don't absolutley *need* 3d, but I like running my OpenGL screensavers, 
and sometime, tux racer. I would have to kill the X server, load the 
agpgart and radeon modules and restart X for 3d.

the system specs are

Tyan Tiger 230 S2507
2 1Ghz CPU's
Radeon 64Mb VIVO AGP
Creative ES 1371 sound
512MB CAS 2 Crucial RAM
Thinkpad X22 p3 800M
Intel BX chipset
Mobile Radeon 8Mb video
Any suggestions appreciated.

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