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Small Slackware 8.0 Issue -> Slow Window Redraw

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Wyck

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Fresh (full) install of Slackware 8.0 onto an Abit KT7A w/ Athlon 900 & GeForce2 GTS. The windows redraw extremely slowly when dragging - Could it be a driver issue? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks 🙂
 
If you look at you XF86Config file under /etc/X11, you are going to notice that the file is using the defaul VESA driver instead of your card's (fbdev I believe is the name of it).
Thus, the VESA driver is mostlikely limiting the capabilities of your video card, since it is designed to use low level vga graphics. So what you have to do, is find out what driver you need to load for X in order to take full advantage of your video card and its memory.
Once you have figure out which driver it is that you need to load, you just go, and edit your XF86Config by replacing the fbdev driver with the one for your card. Make sure you read about your card, and its specifics. You might have to enter other options as well in order to fully use your vid card.

Check out the XFree86 site, and read about your card.

Good luck and keep us posted.
 
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