Fedora Core 5 -- slow GUI performance

[Motor]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:50:03 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:

> 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.

No, the display is fine. I tried setting things up with
system-config-display, but it made no difference. Everything is working,
it's just a slower than FC4 -- but, it seems, only with GTK/GNOME apps.
The slowdown doesn't happen with lyx-qt or nedit... that's why I suspect
that the use of Cairo is the culprit.

[snip]
> 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.

I remember the X problem with FC4. I was stuck using the X packages from
FC3 for while. Thanks.