Unusable and poor graphical performance with standard Vesa drivers on LiveCD
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xserver-xorg-video-vesa (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When running the 6.10 Edgy Eft or 7.04 Feisty Fawn LiveCD's, the graphical performance is unusable and very slow. With a Nvidia GeForce 7800GTX, performing things such as mouse-wheel scrolling in Firefox results in a delayed re-draw of the screen. (a line runs down the screen drawing the new content) This simple scroll of a few lines takes a total of a half second or more generally and can be considered unacceptable.
This bug is obviously the fault of the Vesa drivers on the LiveCD and is carried over when the OS is installed and booted on the HDD with the default Vesa drivers. When installing the nvidia-glx package and changing graphics driver in /etc/X11/
Hardware information:
ASUS A8N-E Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (s939)
2x 1GB Corsair Value Select DDR400 PC 3200 RAM in dual channel
ASUS Nvidia GeForce 7800GTX 256MB
Enermax SFMA Noisetaker 535watt PSU
Logitech Lx700 keyboard/mouse
BenQ DW1650 DVD-/+ DL RW drive
Seagate 7200.9 SATA II 7200RPM 160GB HDD
| Michael Heimann (michael-heimann) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in xserver-xorg-video-vesa: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| Michael Heimann (michael-heimann) wrote | #2 |
I have a nVidia Geforce 7600 and since vesa driver is loaded and only resolution up to 1024x768 is supported - everything is slow and ugly.