I also had some poor reactiveness with Elisa 0.3.2 on Ubuntu when I didn't use the proprietary driver for my GeForce card. Installing the proprietary driver solved it.
So my personal experience would think that it's number 4 but I'm not a developer of Elisa so wait for their answer before buying new software ^^ Patrick On Jan 24, 2008 7:47 PM, Stuart Langridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently running Elisa 0.3.2 on a PPC Mac Mini, at 640x480 > resolution, and both navigating with the menus and playing video are > rather slow and jerky. I've been having some problems with X (hence > why 640x480 resolution), and I'm wondering if that's the cause of the > jerkiness. I'm trying to fix those problems, but I don't want to put > loads of effort into making X work at a better resolution if it won't > solve the Elisa jerkiness. I appreciate this question will be > difficult to answer, but is the jerky menu and video playback likely > to be caused by: > > 1. some sort of X problem which will go away if I can get X to work at > a decent resolution, like 1366x768 > 2. me using Elisa 0.3.2 when 0.3.3 is out (I'm not running it because > there aren't any PPC packages that I can find and I haven't had time > to compile my own) > 3. a G4 Mac Mini not having enough CPU speed to run Elisa properly > 4. the open source ATI driver not being good enough at driving the > Radeon 9200 in the machine (not that I can do anything about that > because there is no PPC closed-source driver, and I'd rather not run > fglrx anyway :)) > 5. something else I haven't thought of? > > If it's 1 or 2 then I'll work hard to fix the problems with the > machine. If it's 3 or 4 then I need to be thinking about buying new > hardware... > > sil > > -- > New Year's Day -- > everything is in blossom! > I feel about average. > -- Kobayashi Issa >
