Re: Another "What Motherboard Should I Buy" question

Mark Adams <mark9117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I may have not been clear about this point -- I can run the 3D eyecandy,
but it's too slow to be useful. Oh! but I can't get some of the choicer
effects, like water.

Is hardware accelerated OpenGL enabled?

glxinfo | grep direct

As is when I open a new Firefox window, the CPU load jumps to 100% and
cruises there for several seconds while the window opens.

Check with top which processes(es) are using resources and what resources
they use.

Swap isn't taking much of a hit at all. Gkrellm says it's 743M free of
996M.

So you are using 256 MB of swap. Is this a number that increases during
the starting of a new program like firefox? Swap is slow, RAM is fast. If
you had 256 MB more RAM your system would be faster.

Pumping Azureus full of downloads will bump that up to something
more like 50%, but I've never seen it higher.

Then you are using almost 512 MB of swap.

It's the OS fglrx driver. I think it may be the generic OS Radeon
driver. It allows 3D direct rendering with AIGLX.

Do you mean the OS (OpenSource) radeon driver from X.org or do you mean
the binary fglrx driver from ATI?

regards Henrik
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