High resource usage for Konq, nspluginviewer and Xorg...

[Neal Becker]

Neal Becker wrote:

> Thomas Janssen wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Linuxguy123
>> <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 23:10 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote:
>>>> And it will be over for
>>>> nvidia users as well, beginning with F-13.
>>>
>>> What ?
>> 
>> Ok, it wasn't obviously.
>> 
>> The *need* to use the propietary driver to have opengl. nouveau
>> supports opengl  starting with F-13. Though i dunno exactly how
>> much/what exact models are supported. But it's a start. Even the first
>> guys testing it reports good progress. Means some opengl games and
>> compiz working.
>> 
>> I only have one old FX5500 in an old box not running fedora there, so
>> i cant tell.
>> 
> 
> If nouveau delivers reasonable performance, I hope to switch.  I tried
> nouveau first on f12, but when I tried to play an hd video, and it just
> about killed my machine, I switch to nvidia.

Because of this discussion, I just tried it again.  I switched back to 
nouveau (which is _much_ more trouble than it should be), and then tried 
playing some videos.  In full screen mode, both vlc and kaffeine showed 
tearing in nouveau, but not in nvidia.  For me, nouveau is still 
unacceptable.