I had a dual P3-500 w/ 512 mb ram w/ Matrox G200 running linux at work and
also a P2-300 running NT X'ing into the other one... I noticed the same
thing about moving terminals or switching virtual desktops. (the windows
one was MUCH faster.) I changed down the resolution and bit-depth on the
dual and it was fine. Maybe that's not the answer you are looking for.
At least make sure you are in the same bit-depth and resolution when you
make comparisons. The G200 seems to be MUCH zippier in 16-bit than in
24-bit mode.
paul
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On Sat, 27 May 2000, tom carlile wrote:
>
> hi guys.
> i'm observing a mysterious speed difference between two of my
> linux machines.
> one is a PII 300MHz 192MB running on a 66MHz bus with an AGP Diamon
> Viper 330 4MB card, 2.2.14 kernel, libc 2.0.7, XFree86 4.0.
>
> the other is a newer athlon 700 with 128MB running at 100MHz (maybe
> 133MHz) bus with an AGP Matrox G400, 2.2.15 kernel with libc 2.1.3,
> XFree86 3.3.6.
> both running the same window manager (sawfish).
>
> when doing things like moving terminals around, or various operations
> in the gimp i notice that the athlon box is MUCH slower than the
> pentium box. athlon vs. pentium arguements aside, 700MHz vs.
> 300MHz should be a noticeable difference.
> the athlon is recognized as a 700MHz by the bios. i'm not really
> sure what i can check or tune to fix this. does anyone
> have any ideas?
>
>
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