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[gusl]

I am currently running Fedora Core 1. Scrolling and moving windows around is very very slow. This is especially annoying when browsing with Firefox. I don't even many programs have open: just Firefox and gEdit.

top gives

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND

3743 gus 15 0 11768 9260 8040 S 3.3 3.6 0:04 0 gnome-terminal
3624 root 15 0 59528 41M 7224 S 1.9 16.5 23:50 0 X
6615 gus 16 0 1112 1112 896 R 0.1 0.4 0:00 0 top
1 root 16 0 428 396 380 S 0.0 0.1 0:04 0 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kapmd
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd/0
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 bdflush


Any tips would be highly appreciated.

Comments

[jozefpronek.livejournal.com]

Tip: don't use Fedora Core. Use Ubuntu or Slackware. :)

Seriously, I have had a much easier time with these distros than with Red Hat/Fedora. But that may just be my personal experience.

[xuande.livejournal.com]

It sounds like the X server is using an unaccelerated driver. Video cards usually have special extensions for accelerating the display of pointers, windows, and other common GUI elements. If X hasn't been configured to use your particular video card it may not be using those extensions. But I've never used Fedora so I'm not sure how it sets up X. The old-fashioned way of doing it is to grep the X documentation (maybe in /usr/share/doc?) for your card and chipset, see if there are any special instructions, and edit the X config file (often XF86Config in /etc or /etc/X) appropriately.

Fedora probably has a GUI tool to make that easier.