5.3 Xorg jerky

[Joe Altman]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:20:30PM -0600, Adrian Patino II wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> Fairly new to FreeBSD. Recently did a fresh install from 4.10 to 5.3,
> and noticed that when in X, things are a bit jerky, enough for me to
> notice at least.  Anything scrolling jerks and SDL video programs are
> very jerky.  Wondering what in particular should I look into to fix
> this?
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> Anyways, I guess im wondering if there was
> anything I might have been doing insanely wrong, so that I can prevent
> that from happening in the future.
> I know this questions are very broad, but im too new to this game to
> make them more specific, hopefully someone can point me in the right

No, I cannot see what you might have done wrong. But as you say, you
didn't provide a lot of detail. My guess: it does sound like something
is amiss with your hardware.

Do you have an idea how to go about gathering the information you need
to troubleshoot, and eliminate it, as a source of whatever it is you
are seeing?