On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 21:38 +1030, n0dalus wrote:
Hi,
Since FC doesn't come with much 3d hardware acceleration support, is
it a bit too much to assume that computers will be able to run the
default screensaver? I have a very good computer and it is still very
jerky when running the screensaver. I'm sure installing Nvidia/Radeon
drivers would fix this but since Fedora doesn't come with them, I
think we should either work to make the screensaver faster, or choose
a different default for FC5.
What do other people think about this? Do other people experience this slowness?
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.
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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com>