On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 18:04 +0300, Sukru TIKVES wrote:
> As far as I know there are significant speed improvements between xorg
> and XFree86 servers, but I may be wrong.
>
> I guess CentOS is not suited for desktop machines, you may try your
> chance with the upcoming FC4 release. (No, i am not talking about
> workstations).
CentOS-4 has xorg-x11-6.8.1 ... works very well with my FX 5200 and the
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174 driver
>
> [ Btw, my machine was Athlon XP 2800+ with GeForce FX 5200. Linux
> install was smooth as in Windows 95 smooth on a P4. ]
>
> Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Sukru TIKVES wrote:
> >
> >> Are you using the x.org driver (nv) or the nvidia one?
> >> I've tried nvidia driver with RENDER extension and XFCE development
> >> version on __gentoo__, and moving transparent windows were "smooth".
> >> However I'd not use such a setup on a serious machine (which CentOS
> >> is fine for). (Maybe only the nvidia driver but without the RENDER
> >> extension).
> >
> >
> > I am using the nvidia driver, with XFree86 centos3.4
> > Moving windows is mostly smooth, not all applications leave traces as
> > X redraws, but I have a dual 3gig machine with a top nvidia card.
> > Also when resizing windows it seems to redraw much slower than windows.
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