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

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, David Taht wrote:

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> John Emmas escribió:
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Taht"
>> Subject: Re: [Ardour-Dev] SuperRapidScreenUpdates are neither rapid, nor
>> super.
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>>> What is your display hardware and window manager?
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>> 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
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> Ahh, those trusty G450s are getting long in the tooth.

I used 3-4 of g450/g550 when working as system adminstrtor, but had 
trouble. Random X crashes and non-snappy behaviour with all of them.
Things could have changed the last 4-8 years, but I would personally have 
replaced the card.