Fedora floating screensaver stutters

[John Reiser]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 1/25/06, n0dalus <n0dalus+redhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I know I can select a different one, but if the default one isn't able
>>to run smoothly on this kind of hardware maybe it shouldn't be the
>>default.
> 
> 
> And if I told you I'm not seeing this on my 512 Meg 1800 MP athlon smp
> system using an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200, using the nv driver?

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.

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