The video performance is abysmally slow (on a motherboard with a quad-core CPU and 6GB of RAM); in particular things like "smooth scrolling" in Pidgin or PDF viewers are slow enough that it reminds me of 486-era graphics.  It's an order of magnitude worse than my old system was.  ASUS graphics card has 512MB of RAM, I noted a message about it only using 256 for some BIOS-related reason, but couldn't find anything settable in the BIOS. I can confirm this. Before I had my core i7, my Q9450 was working quite nicely with my HD3650. With the i7 it was terrible, until EXA was used. I think it has something to do with no being able to enable write-combining, but that's just a guess. Mark van Doesburg. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:

The video performance is abysmally slow (on a motherboard with a quad-core CPU and 6GB of RAM); in particular things like "smooth scrolling" in Pidgin or PDF viewers are slow enough that it reminds me of 486-era graphics.  It's an order of magnitude worse than my old system was.  ASUS graphics card has 512MB of RAM, I noted a message about it only using 256 for some BIOS-related reason, but couldn't find anything settable in the BIOS.

Is there any info I could get you that would help debug?   (Or is this an easy one I should have found via Google?  I did try...)

What version are you running? Are you trying the new EXA code? We need a bit more information. Please post your xorg log. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org