On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:06 PM, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/23/2010 06:33 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> With my essentially-LFS-6.7 desktop I'm noticing that if I have >> firefox open on one desktop, and something else in the same area on >> another, when I go back to firefox it takes a noticeable time to >> repaint itself, even if the processor was idle. This is with >> xorg-server-1.9. Compare to the 1.7-series servers where I only >> notice delays if I'm compiling something. >> >> So, I looked at the thread that was pointed to. I got quite >> confused by all the references to fglrx, but eventually picked the >> xserver-xorg-backclear.patch from Felix Kuehling [attached]. Was >> that what you were talking about ? > > Yes. IIUC, the patch that was added upstream creates about a 300ms > delay on resize of all windows on all devices because it reads back from > VRAM to get a bitmap to fill the area before the resize. This is has a > very bad effect on fglrx drivers, but the same delay applies equally to > all devices. The delay was what made the light bulb go on before. This > applies to the 1.7 server as well, so this is definitely something > different WRT 1.9. > > As far as xorg-server in the book, I'm sticking with 1.7.7 for now with > an R7.5-3 release which I plan to introduce tonight or tomorrow as it > has been tested thoroughly. Unless somebody has a very compelling > reason to upgrade to xorg 7.6-pre, I'm not planning on putting 1.8.x > into the book at all as this was the version series slotted for R7.6. > It does look like 1.9 is slotted for R7.6 now according to > http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.6 . I was under the impression that > 1.8.x never finished the new input hotplugging code and they were > scrapping it for R7.6 (but that info is well over a year old now but > still seems current according to the above page).
No, the input hotplugging has been in for quite some time. A really good reason to upgrade to 1.9 is that a udev backend has been added. So, you don't need HAL to get hotplugged goodness. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
