[opensuse] Desktop effects and CPU
My machine, openSUSE 10.2, AMD64 (32bit install ) 3200+ Beryl AIGLX, nVidia 6600, works fine. But; when I do really CPU intensive stuff, mencoder etc, all the effects become sluggish. As I understand the effects are handled by the display card, so why the slowdown? E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:28 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
My machine, openSUSE 10.2, AMD64 (32bit install ) 3200+ Beryl AIGLX, nVidia 6600, works fine. But; when I do really CPU intensive stuff, mencoder etc, all the effects become sluggish. As I understand the effects are handled by the display card, so why the slowdown?
And what feeds the data to the display card? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 10:23 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:28 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
My machine, openSUSE 10.2, AMD64 (32bit install ) 3200+ Beryl AIGLX, nVidia 6600, works fine. But; when I do really CPU intensive stuff, mencoder etc, all the effects become sluggish. As I understand the effects are handled by the display card, so why the slowdown?
And what feeds the data to the display card?
OK point taken. But the data sent to the card is still the same data sent without Beryl enabled - and I do not get slowdown using KWin? So, does more data get sent to the card with Beryl enabled - I thought the 3D stuff was done way down in the driver layer? E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 6/20/07, Hans van der Merwe
My machine, openSUSE 10.2, AMD64 (32bit install ) 3200+ Beryl AIGLX, nVidia 6600, works fine. But; when I do really CPU intensive stuff, mencoder etc, all the effects become sluggish. As I understand the effects are handled by the display card, so why the slowdown?
3D card does most of the tasks, but some are still done by the CPU. 3D card yet cannot read data directly from hard disk... -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Alexey Eremenko
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Hans van der Merwe
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Kenneth Schneider