Fedora Core 5 -- slow GUI performance

[Jim Cornette]

Motor wrote:
> I have an AMD Athlon XP2000+ with a Matrox G550 card. I used to use it
> with satisfactorily with FC4. I recently upgraded to FC5, and I'm finding
> that the graphics performance is quite poor.
> 

How do the colors look? Are there any visual blemishes in the desktop 
background? I ask because I noticed this on a system that I upgraded 
initially.
I had to go into runlevel 3 and run system-config-display and setup my 
video resolution again with the program. The program showed 800x600 at 
256 colors. I was able to change the settings to 180x1024 and maximum 
color. When going back to the GUI, the color problems wer gone and 
everything was greal with no visual blemishes.

> This... well... sucks, and is a pretty major regression from FC4,
> especially since the Matrox G550 has Free software drivers. Is it ever
> likely to get fixed, or am I just stuck? Is there anyway to get Pango in
> FC5 not to use Cairo (assuming that is the culprit)?
> 

My problem was with an Intel 815 card using the i810 driver. The driver 
works fine, the X setup was lacking the "just works" feature though.

Just an idea since the Matrox and the Intel suffered a similar problem 
when FC4 was released. I might be off base with this suggestion.

Jim

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