On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:07 AM, john wendel <jwendel10(a)comcast.net> wrote:
On 11/08/2009 03:59 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:45 PM, john wendel<jwendel10(a)comcast.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Just tried the live CD on an old P4 / Nvidia graphics box.
>>
>> The Good: Everything worked, it even got the lcd resolution right. I
>> really
>> liked the interface.
>>
>> The Bad: A program called "mutter" was using 100% of a CPU (and I only
>> have
>> one). Made the system very very sluggish.
>
> mutter is the window manager. The reason it would be using so much CPU
> is because the openGL is being done in software and isn't hardware
> accelerated. I know this is slowly improving but until we get HW
> opengl in the driver unfortunately there's not much we can do as the
> Moblin and gnome-shell interfaces both use mutter which uses clutter
> for all the nice effects.
>
> Out of interest what is the nvidia card?
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
It's a geforce 7300 gs - I usually use the "evil" driver. When the final
is
released, I'll do a real install and swap in the nvidia driver. Tomorrow,
I'll try RC3 on an older laptop with Intel graphics.
The evil driver should work quite well I believe. So should the intel
one. The intel one on my atom eeePC thrashes the NV driver on my
relatively high end laptop with dual cores and 4gig of ram!
Peter