On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:03, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > also the system load was noticably higher in 2.6 (the sysload applet was > completely filled while it was maybe 1/3 filled in 2.4)
While the radeon driver can make a difference in console (2.6 version isn't accelerated), it has no impact on X acceleration. You may be encountering a different issue ... (2.6 is usually overall faster than 2.4 here, though I haven't timed gnome-terminal specifically) Ben.