Re: windows focus

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Not a hardware problem; a driver problem.  The nvidia drivers suck. 
They spend a lot of money developing windows drivers, but they release
half-assed drivers for linux that just barely work.

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:03, Marcin Antczak wrote:
> W liście z śro, 10-09-2003, godz. 13:09, Bastien Nocera pisze: 
> > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 11:59, Ross Burton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 11:55, Marcin Antczak wrote:
> > > > Yesterday I installed Windows XP on my system which is (I know it is 
> > > > very old...) PII 400 MHz,RAM 512 MB, HDD ATA100 Barracuda IV, Nvidia
> > > > Gforce2...
> > > > 
> > > > And what can I say - I was shocked how smooth it runs...
> > > > I is a lot faster than my rather fresh Gnome Desktop - ewerything taken
> > > > from Matt's apt repository and Rawhide (distribution is RH 9 but almost
> > > > everyting is upgraded).
> > > 
> > > Personally I'm shocked at how bad the recent nVidia drivers are on
> > > "slower" systems.  I have a Athlon 2000+XP and a GeForce2 MX, and
> > > recently upgraded from nvidia 2xxx (can't recall exact version) to the
> > > latest release (44xx?) and was disgusted at how much slower it is.  I
> > > recommend everyone who uses the nVidia drivers digs out a copy of the
> > > older drivers (2xxx or 3xxx) and see if they improve performance.
> > 
> > And I recommend people stop buying hardware that has crappy proprietary
> > drivers, or at least, stop complaining about them on the GNOME mailing
> > lists.
> 
> Are you sure that this is hardware problem?
> 
> I also have Gnome (2.0) and Windows XP on machine with 1.7 GHz Celeron
> with 256 MB DDR and Gigabyte mainboard with integrated Intel Extreme
> Graphics II and situation is simmilar...
> 
> Flickering on XFree86 and smooth display when resizing windows on
> Windows XP? What's going on?
>