[vox-tech] Increasing frame rate

[Peter Jay Salzman]

richard,

refresh rate is almost certainly not the problem here.  if your refresh
rate were bad, you'd get headaches from using your computer.

there's a lot of places for bottlenecks.  i'm not sure where to point
you first, other than "top" and "cat /proc/swaps" would be useful.

if you want to investigate refresh rate, xvidtune is a good resource.

streaming video doesn't make use of accelerated opengl, so it would be a
waste of time to check if DRI/DRM is functional.

also, try to renice your X server.  i have mine niced to -10.

please describe what you mean by "screensaver flickers" further.

pete



On Thu 04 Dec 03,  1:04 PM, Richard Crawford <rscrawford@mossroot.com> said:
> I love my Linux computer, but the display needs a bit to be desired.  The
> display is slow, streaming video skips and the screensaver flickers; this
> does not happen on my other Linux computer, which has less memory and a
> smaller hard drive and an older processor.
> 
> Is there a way to increase the frame rate in X so that I no longer have
> these problems?
> 
> 
> Sláinte,
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