[Q] Local Gnome desktop very slow - ( RHEL AS4 ) on new HP DL585

Our new HP DL585 with RedHat has an extremely slow click/drag response with 
our Gnome desktop for root and others.

This is to the local FP display - it should be screaming fast. Seems like so
mething is over painting the display. Much latency.

We are checking to see if graphics driver is valid, but wanted to see if the
re were any ideas on Gnome desktop or X settings to check ?

Anyone seen this before on other systems ?

-John

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Braincramp wrote:
> [Q] Local Gnome desktop very slow - ( RHEL AS4 ) on new HP DL585
>
> Our new HP DL585 with RedHat has an extremely slow click/drag response
> with our Gnome desktop for root and others.
>
> This is to the local FP display - it should be screaming fast. Seems
> like something is over painting the display. Much latency.
>
> We are checking to see if graphics driver is valid, but wanted to see if
> there were any ideas on Gnome desktop or X settings to check ?
>
> Anyone seen this before on other systems ?
>
> -John

Is it an ATI graphics display?  If so, you may need to download, compile
and install the commercial ATI X video drivers.  Same would be the case
for NVidia, although the OSS drivers for NVidia aren't bad if you stick
to 2D work.

Also, I've never known Gnome to be very fast.  While I'm a KDE
proponent, it's not fast either.  You may want to use something lighter
weight for a window manager.

Other things to look for would be in dmesg and /var/log/messages to see
what AGP rate the video card was detected at.  You may have to pass an
option off to the whatever AGP GART driver is being loaded to drive it
up to full 8x AGP.

Let us know if any of that helps or not.  We can delve further if need be.

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