[Gimp-web] next.gimp.org bad performance

[Tom Williams]

Bernhard Stockmann wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:10:14 -0700
> Tom Williams <tomdkat at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm just not seeing this poor performance.  I'm running Linux on an AMD 
>> Athlon64 3200+ running at 2GHz and I viewed the site on a laptop with an 
>> AMD Athlon XP2800+ running at 2.2GHz (I believe) running Windows XP Home 
>> Edition and neither system has been unresponsive during the loading of 
>> next.gimp.org, navigating the pages, or loading images.
>>     
>
> this problem does not occur on windows because windows systems always utilize 2d/3d acceleration capabilities of the graphics card. linux systems do - by default - not. am i right that the linux system where you tested it was running an nvidia (not nv) or fglrx driver?
>
>   
I've got an ATI Radeon Xpress 200 video adapter in my Linux box and I am 
using the fglrx driver.  That must be it.

Peace...

Tom