Quoting David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My guess is that you wind up doing the scrolling operation all in > software with the nv driver, which is why you get that much CPU > usage. I'd guess that switching to the (non-free) NVidia driver would > in fact help you get around this problem. There's not much you could > change in the kernel configuration to improve it, I don't think.
Out of curiosity I tried to duplicate the problem on a Windows box at work. Turns out that on a 3.2GHz machine with 512MB RAM and a GeForceMX 5200 with 64MB vRAM running Windows XP, a similar thing happens, although the utilization tops out around 40%. I then tried it on an older box, PIII-733, also running Windows XP. The result: approx. 90% CPU usage when rapidly scrolling. So, I imagine that it's a result of my slightly slow hardware and, as you noted, not using the proprietary nVidia drivers. -M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
