On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Jonathan Savage wrote: >Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:54:38 -0700 >From: Jonathan Savage <jonathansavage@earthlink.net> >To: psyche-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="utf-8" >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Slow GUI Performance > >G'day all- >After having scanned everything posted in October I have not found a fix to >this problem- > >The desktop performance is really, really slow. >That was not the case in RH 7.2. I did a clean install and wonder if there is >a tweak I need to do to get things running more quickly. > >Some System Specs: >Dell Dimension_L >PIII 500 >320 MB RAM >Graphics card Intel 810 > >Thanks in advance Your system is a tad slow. Both GNOME and KDE in Red Hat Linux 8.0 use the new XFree86 Xft libraries for client side fonts, which provides uniform font support for all Xft enabled applications, and allows antialiasing for example. Since most of the distribution is using Xft now for font display, the demands are higher on the CPU since Xft is currently not accelerated by any of the video drivers. Future XFree86 releases likely will begin accelerating this stuff, at least on the most modern graphics adaptors. 2 possibilities: 1) Disable antialiasing 2) Buy a faster CPU Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
