Fedora 11: Very very slow graphics rendering

Paul Allen Newell pnewell at cs.cmu.edu
Tue Oct 13 06:00:30 UTC 2009


Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote:
> 2009/10/13 Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com 
> <mailto:Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>>
>
>     Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote:
>     > Problem: Fedora 11 is very very slow while it comes to rendering
>     > graphics. It makes the experience really very poor. Clicking on any
>     > menu or opening of any item is dead slow. And then I will have
>     to wait
>     > and see each and every part of its message boxes, screens, buttons
>     > loading and then can click on them.
>     >
>     > PC Configuration:
>     > Athlon AMD 1500+ (1.3 GHz)
>     > RAM: 1GB
>     > Swap size: 1 GB
>     > / partition size: 12GB
>     >
>     > Note: Fedora 10 was working great!
>     >
>     If you are having graphics rendering problems, don't you think it
>     would
>     be a good idea to tell folks what graphics card you are using and what
>     driver?
>
>
>     --
>     Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient. Don't believe a
>     thing he tells you. Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
>
>
>
> Sorry, as I am a beginner in Fedora, can someone please suggest me way 
> to find the name of the graphics driver used?
> The system was setup with default things; it was slow as mentioned.
> Then with YUMEX, i installed the Xorg-11-S3 driver, and then restarted 
> the machine; to end up with the same result.
> I looked in the menus of KDE but could not find the drivers list or 
> the default driver info.
> Please suggest.
>
Knowing the renderer would help to ...

I know that for NVidia drivers there is a file you can cat with the 
info, but it is on my work machine and I don't have access to that at 
the present.

Paul




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