GeForce FX 5200 / RedHat 9 / very slow

desau13 · 09-02-03, 12:21 PM

Hello,

I just replaced my two older video cards with a GeForce FX 5200. The old cards were:
- AGP GeForce MX 440
- PCI Vanta

I was previously running Xinerama with these cards, both using the nvidia driver.

I just pulled them out and put in a 5200, reconfigured X (still using Xinerama -- not TwinView).

Performance is very, very slow, particularly with font antialiasing in QT/KDE.. Looking at top shows the CPU getting hammered by X, the load goes up to 4 if there's a lot of font drawing.

I've tried re-installing the nvidia driver (I'm using version 4496) and I've upgraded my KDE/QT packages to the latest... still very high cpu usage from X.

Any ideas?

desau13 · 09-02-03, 12:35 PM

Ok -- posting reply to my own thread -- I've fixed the problem by enabling TwinView. I guess having GLX on both displays really helps -- it's much, much faster now and isn't using so much CPU.

09-02-03, 12:21 PM	#1
desau13 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 10	GeForce FX 5200 / RedHat 9 / very slow Hello, I just replaced my two older video cards with a GeForce FX 5200. The old cards were: - AGP GeForce MX 440 - PCI Vanta I was previously running Xinerama with these cards, both using the nvidia driver. I just pulled them out and put in a 5200, reconfigured X (still using Xinerama -- not TwinView). Performance is very, very slow, particularly with font antialiasing in QT/KDE.. Looking at top shows the CPU getting hammered by X, the load goes up to 4 if there's a lot of font drawing. I've tried re-installing the nvidia driver (I'm using version 4496) and I've upgraded my KDE/QT packages to the latest... still very high cpu usage from X. Any ideas?

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09-02-03, 12:35 PM	#2
desau13 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 10	Ok -- posting reply to my own thread -- I've fixed the problem by enabling TwinView. I guess having GLX on both displays really helps -- it's much, much faster now and isn't using so much CPU.