[RANT] Installed F10 - X performance went into the crapper

[john wendel]

Peter Arremann wrote:
> On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:50:48 am john wendel wrote:
>> a 1600x1200 monitor
>>
>> With FC6, I ran KDE 3.5 without any problems.
>>
>> Now with F10 I'm using XFCE, and the box is a total P.O.S.
> 
> Sorry for the big edit but I cut out everything that wasn't 100% on topic ;)
> 
> Anyway - I've had the same. 1920x1200 laptop display with a 8400M.
> FC6 was fine. 7 and 8 sucked. 9 worked great again. 10 is the worst so far. 
> You can't even scroll a full screen firefox window without waiting 1-2 seconds 
> per screen refresh. Only happens for me with large resulutions > 1280x1024.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't say I can help. This has been going on forever and I've 
> tried everything I can think of. The only solution for me was to use the 
> closed source nvidia driver... 
> 
> Hope you feel better knowing you're not alone ;)
> 
> Peter.
> 

I haven't tried the nvidia driver with F10. I don't like it due to the 
huge memory usage, but I'll give it a try.

Thanks,

John