Slow performance on X

[Zane C. B-H.]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:02:52 +0200
Riaan Kruger <riaank at gmail.com> wrote:

> The chip is a Matrox G200eW.  My Xorg config as generated by "Xorg
> -configure" is below
> 
><snip>
>
> Section "Device"
>         ### Available Driver options are:-
>         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>:
> "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>         ### [arg]: arg optional
>         #Option     "ShadowFB"           # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "DefaultRefresh"     # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
> Identifier  "Card0"
> Driver      "vesa"
> VendorName  "Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd."
> BoardName   "MGA G200eW WPCM450"
> BusID       "PCI:10:4:0"
> EndSection
>
> <snip>

Howdy!

Yeah, vesa is always gonna suck. It is the default fall back when
auto detection fails or what ever. I strongly suggest you try
x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga .