On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Lloyd Kvam <pyt...@venix.com> wrote: > The HP laptop that was too slow did OK in casual store browsing. > However, once Steph started trying to do some real work on the laptop, > the screen scrolling was just too slow.
That's almost certainly due to video drivers. Most likely, it was running the generic SVGA drivers, as Jerry said. They lack practically all hardware acceleration, so even simple scrolling means tons of data transfer between main memory and the frame buffer. If device-specific proprietary drivers are available, it will make a huge difference in performance. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
