[ale] X and desktop redraws

[jb at sourceillustrated.com (jb at sourceillustrated.com)]

Guys,

On my new laptop, I've noticed that if I drag a window along the desktop,
the CPU usage spikes and redraws go very slowly.  Moving windows seems to
take a lot of CPU power.  In addition, some of the screensavers redraw
sluggishly as well (can see refresh lines).

This is a P4 2.0 ghz, Geforce 4 32 mb with the nvidia driver installed, so
it's got the muscle.  My work machine (P4 1 ghz) doesn't have this problem
with the same background display, and it's only got a 16 mb integrated
intel chipset.

Is there some X setting I need to modify to remedy this?  Could this be
the result of a buggy driver?  What else should I investigate?

Also, could the Dell Inspiron i8200 owners verify if this happens on your
machine?

Thanks guys.

John



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