great install; ALSA, X, modules questions

[Scott Campbell]

On Tue, 2004-05-10 at 08:36 +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> | 2) Redraw on X is slow: ie: moving opaque windows is pretty herky-jerky,
> | upscrolling gnome-terminal is painful, etc. xfree 4.3.0 on
> | debian/testing with Gnome 2.6 worked fine, things moved around quite
> | smoothly. The XF86Config files are almost the same: the old one had
> | 'v4l' and 'xtt' modules and the new one has the line BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> | in the device section. Are these likely culprits, or is something else
> | maybe getting in the way? Or is Gnome 2.8 just slower?
> 
> Doubtfully X is the problem since it's the same code base as Debian.
> The options you mention do not affect speed.

It was not X, it was my eyes: Ubuntu was configured for 24bit colour
depth, and 16bits was much faster. It was right there in the old
XF86Config, I just missed it (and now recall having the same problem
several years ago when I first installed woody).

Scott