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

[john wendel]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

Thanks, I didn't think of this one. I'll check when I return to work.

Regards,

John