Fedora floating screensaver stutters

[n0dalus]

On 1/26/06, John Reiser <jreiser at bitwagon.com> wrote:
>
> Perhaps a related issue: floaters has high CPU utilization on my box.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178496
> Video card is ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF,
> a low-end card.  My guess is that floaters+Xorg performs many
> format conversions of the pixmaps, perhaps due to anti-aliasing
> and/or compositing, which low-end hardware does not support well.
> Certainly more than onboard-to-screen blit is going on.
>

I'm beginning to think that there's something wrong with the screensaver itself.

Running the screensaver with the '-s' argument makes it show the
framerate. It's reporting over 40fps here, but the screensaver is
stuttering the whole time. At 40fps, it should be really smooth.

n0dalus.