[ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

[Chris Rowson]

>  Chris Rowson wrote:
>  | I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why
>  | it would be so?
>
>
>  The only question which springs to my mind is whether you're using the
>  Mesa software graphics drivers or the binary drivers for your graphics card?
>
>  I think that this should give you a clue about which driver you are
>  definitely using (without poking around in xorg.conf).
>
>  $ glxinfo|grep vendor
>  server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
>  client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
>  OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
>
>
>  Plus to test your opengl performance you can run the following - if it's
>  really jerky then that's probably due to your graphics card:
>
>  $ glxgears
>
>  I get between 1500 and 2500 FPS for reference.
>
>  System->Administration->Restricted Drivers Manager is where I enabled my
>  binary Nvidia drivers - they aren't open source so Ubuntu disables them
>  by default.
>
>  I'm not an expert so I'm sure you'll get better advice but hopefully
>  this will get you started.
>
>  - --
>  Stephen O'Neill

Hi Stephen,

This situation occurs on three computers I can think of, one running
NVIDIA, one ATI and one an Intel graphics card. All running the binary
drivers from the restricted drivers manager.

I don't think this is a graphics problem to be honest...

If anyone is interested in testing this. Take a dual-boot laptop/pc.
Visit the cartoonito.co.uk website and try a few games using Firefox
and the Flash plugin under Windows XP, then under Ubuntu.

See what the responsiveness/smoothness of web browser operations, for example:

* Type a url into the address bar in Firefox 3. The browser begins to
scroll up previously accessed sites as suggestions. Note the
performance under both OS's.

* Try some of the Flash games mentioned under both OS's. Note the
performance of animations etc.

I'm sure it's not me going mad!

Chris