AW: Re: KDE4 slow on thinclients (video)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday 07 November 2008, chris at schlagmichtod.de wrote:
> I am not a developer, but this one surprises me.
> The Geode NX is basically an Athlon (K7-Core) on 1GHZ.
> So the Celeron nearly has three times more Mhz and double RAM,
> Ok, Celerons are not the Kings of efficiency, but with a _that_ big
> advantage in numbers, it should not feel slower than the Geode.
>
> So maybe there are driver (mesa!?) issues here, perhaps the differences in
> Kernel-Series (2.6/2.4) and X also have an impact. Overall, those Systems
> are very different.

yes, i don't think it's the CPU or RAM at all. it's likely to be the graphics 
drivers, as that's what has been the issue previously even on thick clients 
for people. we also have thin clients working just fine elsewhere, but using 
different drivers.

the issue is that plasma uses argb windows and some drivers, esp older ones, 
apparently relaly, really suck at handling that.

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