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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Marcus Hartig <m.f.h@web.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to disable slow agpgart in kernel config?
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:46:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050211184604.GB15721@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <420CDB93.70506@web.de>

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:21:39PM +0100, Marcus Hartig wrote:

 > No warnings/errors in both logs. All clean. But switching/maximizing 
 > between tasks like firefox, thunderbird or a gnome-terminal is so slow, 
 > that you can see it how firefox/GTK+ theme is writing the GUI and the 
 > fonts slowly back. Minimizing is no more fun, like a fast slide-show. And 
 > that on a fast amd64 3200 with 1 GB RAM and a FX 5900XT. :(

None of this involves 3D operation, or AGPGART.

 > With the nVidia own nv_agp it appears directly in all apps, very fast 
 > under GNOME 2.8.1. Why, I do not know. Also game (opengl) performance is 
 > faster with the nv_agp, that I haven't used the kernel agp for months, now.

*shrug*, if the nvidia module is properly configured, it should make
no difference at all. AGPGART operation isn't a performance critical
thing, as the hardware does 99% of the work.

 
		Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-11 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-11  6:07 How to disable slow agpgart in kernel config? Marcus Hartig
2005-02-11  6:21 ` Dave Jones
2005-02-11 16:21   ` Marcus Hartig
2005-02-11 18:46     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2005-02-11 21:08       ` Marcus Hartig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-11 18:04 Nick Warne
2005-02-11 18:48 ` Dave Jones
2005-02-11 22:19   ` Terence Ripperda
2005-02-11 22:34     ` Nick Warne
2005-02-12 18:16 Marcus Hartig
2005-02-12 18:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-12 19:36   ` Marcus Hartig
2005-02-12 20:47     ` Dave Jones
2005-02-13  9:20       ` Marcus Hartig

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