On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 06:01:10PM -0400, Marty 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.
Did you check with top what is using the CPU? > 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 You call that a slow card? > grep enabled /var/log/Xorg.0.log > (==) AIGLX enabled > (II) RADEON(0): Color tiling enabled by default > (**) RADEON(0): Backing store enabled > (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled > (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration enabled > (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled > (**) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled > (==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled > (==) RandR enabled Any errors in the log? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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