Fedora floating screensaver stutters

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 21:38 +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since FC doesn't come with much 3d hardware acceleration support, is
> it a bit too much to assume that computers will be able to run the
> default screensaver? I have a very good computer and it is still very
> jerky when running the screensaver. I'm sure installing Nvidia/Radeon
> drivers would fix this but since Fedora doesn't come with them, I
> think we should either work to make the screensaver faster, or choose
> a different default for FC5.
> 
> What do other people think about this? Do other people experience this slowness?

Or just select a different one if it is too slow for you.  For a
majority of computers (I have an ATI and Nvidia) the open source drivers
should work fine.  Stutter does happen when it first starts because it
loads up a bunch of different images into memory and at that point it is
more disk I/O.  3d hardware support doesn't do a thing here because it
is all just blasting different size bitmaps onto the screen and moving
them around.  Most open source drivers should handle this fine.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>