Wine and speed

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Hi Everybody

I have a brand-spanking-new T41p which I am very happy with ;o) Here are the specs for anybody who does not know the machine:

Pentium M 1.7 Ghz

ATI FireGL T2 (128 MB)

1024 MB RAM (512 MB orig and 512 extra)

60 GB HD

I have XP running on the thing and, to be honest, I cannot tell the diffence to my desktop PC (3,06 GHz, 2 GB RAM, NVidia 5700 Ultra).

I basically bought the Laptop so that I could get down dirty with Linux and still be mobile. After trying various distro’s I am now using Fedora Core 2. I have installed the current version of WINE and am running Notes Designer on it.

My problem is that it is slow - and I mean VERY SLOW. So slow, in fact, that when I do Alt-V-G-V (View-Goto-View) I mostly end up in the wrong menu - not really a problem though. What is a BIG problem is that when I go into the debugger Notes needs about 3 seconds per step (and I am talking Print’s here folks ;o) - anybody else have these problems?

I have not been able to install the correct video driver yet, so maybe that is the probem - I did a CPU graph and, although the CPU utilisation is higher than in XP, it only hovers around 20 % most of the time.

Anybody tried this (debugging) and have similar problems?

I did expect it to be a bit slower but this is so slow as to make it unusable :o(

Any help (as in it works perfectly for me - your config must be incorrect) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanking you all in advance

ursus

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Subject: wine and speed

Wine and speed is a really bad combination ;o)

There are a couple of things that are going to slow things down. First, there’s the whole WINE thing. Okay, the name says it’s not an emulator, but c’mon – who do they think they’re trying to kid? A “soft” computer will always be slower than the real thing. How much slower is the only question.

Then there’s that video driver thing – Notes 6 relies rather heavily on the video device creating the displays (where R5 treated the hardware as “dumb” and did all of the drawing/redrawing itself). A bad or obsolete video driver would slow a Win2K client down to near unusability, so I wouldn’t expect it would get any better under WINE.

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Subject: RE: wine and speed

Hi Stan

Thank you for your answer ;o)

I did not expect WINE to be super speedy, but it really is a dog on my sysmem :o(

I will try and get the ATI FireGL T2 driver installed (got, what a problem that has been the last couple of DAYS, yes, I have spent whole days trying to get it to work) and report back here if it is then usable / stable ;o)

Have a great weekend

Ursus