nv performance

[Alex Deucher]

On 1/10/06, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de> wrote:
> Bojan Smojver wrote:
> > Quoting Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de>:
> >
> >> what is the best way to get good 2d performance out of an geforce 2mx
> >> card?
> >
> > Are you running the proprietary NVIDIA drivers?
> >
> Right now I'm stying away from the proprietary drivers if I can so right
> now I'm using "nv".
>
> It seems that I'm hitting exactly the same problem that I had with the
> readeon driver though. Xorg spends a lot of time in fbcopyareammx and
> moving windows around is jerky and eats most of the cpu time.

you can play with the experimantal nv exa acceleration here:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ExaStatus

Alex

>
> Regards,
>    Dennis