On 1/26/06, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Or just select a different one if it is too slow for you. For a
majority of computers (I have an ATI and Nvidia) the open source drivers
should work fine. Stutter does happen when it first starts because it
loads up a bunch of different images into memory and at that point it is
more disk I/O. 3d hardware support doesn't do a thing here because it
is all just blasting different size bitmaps onto the screen and moving
them around. Most open source drivers should handle this fine.
I have a 2.8G P4 with 1GB of ram and a Radeon 9600XT.
It is very jerky on startup, but even after that it stutters when too
many logos are moving around at once ( at least for me ). Perhaps it
is the high resolution I am using (1600x1200). I know it's not 3d,
but in my experience 2d rendering had been improved a lot with the
proprietary drivers.
I know I can select a different one, but if the default one isn't able
to run smoothly on this kind of hardware maybe it shouldn't be the
default.
n0dalus.