On 8/18/07, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
