[ltp] Mandrake 9.1/Redhat 9.0

[Tod Harter]

I haven't tested the difference between 16 and 24 bpp performance on my 
desktop either, and have no other OS installed to compare MDK 9.1 to, but I 
can tell you that when I had win2k on the same hardware I never had problems 
with XMMS dropouts or screen flicker no matter what display settings I was 
using, and the system is a 1.5 ghz P4 with a Radeon 8500 card in it. That 
should be plenty of performance with DDR 133 mhz RAM and 4x AGP!!! Dunno what 
the MDK/RH differences are, but win2k drivers certainly seem to be higher 
quality than the Linux ones, or else the win2k kernel just has a lot better 
determinacy in servicing interrupts.

On Tuesday 08 April 2003 03:57 am, Myles Byrne wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 16:40, brianweber4 at attbi.com wrote:
> > Thanks for the information.
> >
> > I now have loaded Mandrake 9.1 and Redhat 9.0 on my Thinkpad 380Z.
> >
> > When in a web browser, when I scroll in Mandrake, I get 'refresh flicker'
> > but not in Redhat!
>
> Have you checked the x server settings? mandrake might be set to 24bit
> color while redhat might be set to 16bit color, this makes a huge
> difference in x performance and might account for the 'flicker'
>
> --
> Myles Byrne <myles at byrnewebservices.com>
> ByrneWebServices

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