Problems with nv driver

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/7/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:41, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >On 11/7/06, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> wrote:
> >> I have an nVidia GeForce4 440 Go in my laptop and I use the nv driver
> >> on Fedora Core 6, recently upgraded (fresh install) from FC5.
> >>
> >> With this combination, googleearth is slow as molasses.  On FC5 it was
> >> maybe a bit slow, but still perfectly usable, but on FC6 it's totally
> >> unusable.  I basically get complete screen redraws one after the other
> >> while googleearth is zooming (well, trying to zoom) around.
> >>
> >> What happened between FC5 and FC6 to cause this?  Is there anything I
> >> can do to improve things?
> >
> >I'd expect googleearth to be slow with the nv driver.
> >
> Additional info: it doesn't work, tending to miss-draw and freeze when
> running on an ati-9200SE using the kernels radeon driver.

What does the radeon driver have to do with the problem using the nv driver?


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