Preferred video card

[Charles K. Lee II]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:42:50AM -0600, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> Dragging windows around also seems a bit faster now, although it looks 
> like the redraws are pretty asynchronous to the screen refresh, and 
> occurring multiple times per video scan (making the edges ragged when 
> moving), but I can live with that.

The problem here is that the latest NVIDIA drivers no longer use XAA
(XFree86 Acceleration Architecture).  They've replaced it with their own 2D
acceleration component that better facilitates simultaneous 2D and 3D
rendering.  However, it's a bit lacking when it comes to 2D performance, as
you have seen.

I've heard that adding 'Option "renderAccel" "true"' to the 'Device' section
within your X configuration file may help.  However, most people have just
reverted back to the previous version of the drivers. 

You can find this issue mentioned in the following forums:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=1bec0dd16f377dc311507267bf72ec12&threadid=4997

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33226&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=nvidia+dri
vers

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