On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:43, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > 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.
hmmhh. would the 'old' radeon driver be accelerated on console... Then I would try it out if it is still working on 2.6... > 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) it is not gnome-terminal but multi-gnome-terminal which is more like xterm. So no antialiasing -> much faster. Soeren.
