Reply #9: I remember you mentioning Radeon ...

[RoyGBiv]

That's what made me think of this.

Let me ask, did you install the proprietary ATI driver? If you don't know, you didn't, 'cause it can be a pain in the butt. If not, your distro probably defaulted to using the standard VESA driver, which works fine for the most part, but you won't be using the gl extensions or hardware acceleration. Memory management may be screwed up, etc. I used to have a list of all the things that didn't work right if the prop. driver wasn't installed, but I seem to have lost it.

Anyway ... I won't beat the point to death. When you get back around to messing with it, let me know.

As for what you've done with your XP system, all that certainly would make a difference. I have mine tweaked, but not *that* tweaked. :-) It's really just the same thing with Linux. If you're not building from scratch, you're dealing with what someone else, or some group, decided was important. For major distros that are trying to appeal to everyone, that results in a lot of bloat.

Happy manerizing. (good word)

P.S. One day, you'll be compiling you're own custom kernels. That's where the serious tweaking begins, and if you aren't crazy now, you will be. Oh, you. will. be. ;-)