[RANT] Installed F10 - X performance went into the crapper

[Gordon Messmer]

john wendel wrote:
> Now with F10 I'm using XFCE, and the box is a total P.O.S.  Resizing or 
> moving a window is a nightmare, the screen redraw is too slow to keep up 
> with the cursor, and I see lots of screen glitches. When I open an app 
> like Firefox with a complicated screen, I see the screen being drawn in 
> individual pieces. Scrolling text in a Vim console is much too slow to 
> be usable.

My first guess is that your system is using the VESA driver rather than 
nv.  Maybe you should send /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?