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?
>
Are you sure you have the correct video driver / X-server (depending on X
version) installed on the newer machine? Whenever I've had this problem,
it's always been the case that the incorrect X server was being used.
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