In message <200201262159.AIA27648@zidane.cc.vt.edu>, "Sung N. Cho" writes:
>I like the netbsd's strong support for hardwares (even new laptops), full 
>user control over environment, good engineering of pkgsrc, uvm, etc which are 
>still lacking in other OS's.  However, when I try to play even very simple 
>graphical displays (for example, enabling graphical displays in xmms) NetBSD 
>is very slow!  The graphical displays of xmms is very slow!  In gnome, when I 
>enable the esd meter on while playing xmms, everything plays in slow motion.  
>kde's mediaplayer, noatun gets choppy just playing music.  Is it the 
>compatibility issue or do I need to tune my system?

What's your display hardware?  What version of X are you using?  My first
guess would be that your video hardware has a poor driver; if you're using
XF86 3.x, I'd try 4.x.

-s