On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:07 AM, john wendel <jwendel10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/08/2009 03:59 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:45 PM, john wendel<jwendel10@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> 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 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
