--- Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Rawlins wrote:
> > I now have found a most obvious example of the
> discontinuity. If,
> > before taking off, I grab the title bar of FG
> window and move
> > window, I hear that nasty sound.
> > [...]
> > Can anyone speak to the relative quality of my
> NVIDIA
> > 28MB GeForce2 card?
>
> Only that I've never heard of such a thing. Surely
> it's a 32MB card,
> no? :)
Err, sorry, 32MB.
> What desktop resolution and color depth are you
> using?
At work, I have a dual monitor setup. My laptop is
1400x1050, 24 bpp color depth. Next to it I have a
ViewSonic 1600x1200 external LCD set to 24 bpp. I have
it set up where I can move a window across from the
laptop monitor to the external and back. Pretty cool
actually...makes it easy to write a paper (I'm in a
science field) while looking at a XY plot (maps, etc)
in the other monitor.
When at home it's just, obviously, the 1400x1050
laptop. And of course I only fly when at home!
> This sounds to
> me a like the driver is having allocation
> difficulties and is
> thrashing stuff out to main memory to make room.
> Try running at 16bpp
> and/or setting your desktop resolution lower
> (1280x1024 should be
> fine) and see if that improves or changes the
> symptom.
>
> Similarly, which version of the NVidia driver are
> you using? It might
> be that a performance regression got introduced
> recently that causes
> problems on older (i.e. less-tested) cards? I know
> that my laptop
> (which has a 64MB Geforce 440 Go -- not too
> different from your card)
> fails entirely with the two most recent driver
> releases.
My paperwork says 32MB DDR 4X AGP NVIDIA GeForce2 Go.
Recently updated the driver for the latest kernal
release. Not sure the problem is related. I'll boot up
the previous kernal(s) next chance I get. I'll also
try the lower color depth as well. But as I mentioned
things improved when I ran FG with just one shell
window open. My sys admin said there's a way to start
X with just a single shell window (no KDE desktop),
but it might takes alot of work since I usually start
with some fancy configured /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
> Andy
Andy and Curt, thanks for your replies.
Mike
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