From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 21:02:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808092102.43816.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g7koap$2qr$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Saturday 09 August 2008 20:40:20 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > Also the 7300 is a bad example - it is a very slow card.
>
> Not really. It's at least 5 times as powerful as my old Matrox Mystique
> from the year 1995 (I think). But the Matrox is faster with 2D.
>
> It's not the hardware that is slow. Quire the contrary. It's the
> drivers that are totally borked. All I can say is stop buying NVidia
> and ATI junk.
I wanted to do that. Until I looked at my options:
Onboard Intel
1280X800
My last Dell D830 at my last job had that. It drove me psychotic. So I had a
tough choice:
Be mostly free
Be mostly insane
No-brainer really...
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-09 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-09 7:59 [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly Alan McKinnon
2008-08-09 8:54 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-09 18:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-08-09 19:03 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-09 19:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-08-11 8:51 ` Dirk Uys
2008-08-09 11:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2008-08-09 17:02 ` Filipe Sousa
2008-08-09 17:56 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-09 18:40 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-08-09 19:02 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-08-09 19:14 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-09 19:46 ` Filipe Sousa
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=200808092102.43816.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com \
--to=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox