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Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal)

Posted Apr 4, 2007 0:47 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (guest, #2285)
In reply to: Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal) by sbergman27
Parent article: Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal)

The "nv" driver sucks. It sucks hard.

X CPU goes to 100% on a 2.2GHz cpu for whole seconds while I swap virtual desktops.

I'm using it anyway so I can play with -mm kernels but the nvidia driver and Compiz is sooo much better.

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Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal)

Posted Apr 4, 2007 17:24 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link] (2 responses)

Really? I have a 6800GT, and I cannot tell the difference between the free driver and the proprietary one in 2D.

Switching virtual desktops is essentially instantaneous for me.

Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal)

Posted Apr 4, 2007 18:00 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

I use a laptop. It could be the amount of time it takes the CPU to scale up from 800 to 2200. Or it could be that with 1920x1200, 24-bit screen and sub-pixel anti-aliased text, it just takes that long to redraw.

Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal)

Posted Apr 4, 2007 21:41 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

It's a old machine with 1.13ghz thunderbird proccessor and a PCI Geforce 440mx video card.

Something that would have a significant impact on that machine would often not be noticable on your machine. It's just so fast that your not going to notice.