I haven't seen any reports of poor nvidia performance, but poor ATI
performance has been reported by several Ferrari laptop users, and was
worked around by disabling the DRI module in xorg.conf.

        -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Chris Ridd wrote:
> I'm noticing that my 2 machines running snv_91 appear to be running 
> quite slowly compared to snv_90.
> 
> In particular, moving windows around on screen shows background windows 
> (eg gnome-terminal, firefox, thunderbird) repainting themselves very slowly.
> 
> The desktop box has an Nvidia NV43GL [Quadro FX 540] card, and X is 
> using the nvidia driver.
> 
> The laptop has an ATI Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] and the 
> vgatext driver is being used.
> 
> I've disabled all the compviz stuff on the desktop box, but still things 
> seem very slow compared to before.
> 
> Is this a known issue and/or is there anything I can do about it?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
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