[Ardour-Dev] SuperRapidScreenUpdates are neither rapid, nor super.

Sun Mar 8 10:15:59 PDT 2009

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, John Emmas wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Taht"
> Subject: Re: [Ardour-Dev] SuperRapidScreenUpdates are neither rapid, nor
> super.
>> 
>> What is your display hardware and window manager?
>> 
> On the desktop machine I have a Matrox Millennium G450 and the laptop uses an 
> onboard Nvidia GeForce4 440 chipset.  Window manager is Gnome in both
> cases.
>

Are you using the closed-source binary driver from nvidia on the
laptop? In case not, you will get significant better performance
with it. The VESA driver is slow in general with that chipset,
and the open source "nv" driver doesn't provide very good
response times.