Performance issue with X11

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 17:50 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>    - Do you have another video card to test?
> >
> > No. I don't need fancy graphics and the high level of traffic about ATI
> > and Nvidia on this list puts me off getting into that. The only
> > graphic-intensive app I use is the foobillard game, which used to be
> > acceptable but now is virtually unplayable because of flicker.
> 
> Are you able to change the shared video memory in the BIOS? You have 2GB.
> Test setting to auto if the setting is available.
> The video card may be starving for memory and hence the repainting errors.

Interesting thought. I'll take a look.

poc