On Thursday 02 March 2006 04:58 Holly Bostick was like: > I am (at this very moment, actually) upgrading to Xorg 7.0, after which > I'm going to enable the r300 drivers (I have a 9800SE), and if those > don't help, I'm going to see if the fglrx drivers work better under 7.0 > than under 6.8.2.
I have just upgraded to X.org 7.0 and there is still a problem (using fglrx) with black rectangles, although not as bad. However the slow typing problem has become much less severe, which means (Hooray!) that Scribe under wine is now usable. While I was waiting to get the new xorg version running I tried to run the program remotely using Apple X11 (Panther version) on a clapped out Wallstreet II Powerbook. It was hard to see exactly what was going on with speed because of an unrelated problem to do with fonts, but it certainly looked like the boxes were getting drawn very slowly indeed. As Apple X11 is based on an earlier version of XFree86, this suggests that the slow screen rendering problem was with the version of XFree/X.org used, rather than with fglrx as such. Any many thanks, Holly, for showing me the way. Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
