On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:27:29PM +0200, bendeguz wrote: > Hi all! > > So, the video card in an old radeon 7500, > not mobility. > I have been experiencing a problem for a very > long time, if not from the beggining of my > linux desktop carreer: > > Here is an example: I have midori oen with > a web page, with graphics, pictures, etc. > if I open preferences window the > content of it is not instanly drawn, but first > I see a grey square, like an empty form. > When I close it, the content of the page is > not instantly drawn back. > > It is the same with a minimized gtk window: > if I open it up, I get an empty window for a > moment (like an empty form), and then comes > the content. > > I don't know how I can still use my desktop > this way, but it's very disturbing. > > Ken (or anyone), have you experienced similar? > > Regards, > bendeguz > All the time. I don't use midori much, but I use epiphany a lot, and it's always unresponsive when loading big or complex pages. I blame webkit (particularly for the lack of any indication that anything is happening). More generally, firefox (well, icecat, but same codebase) is unresponsive when I'm compiling. I first noticed that as a general problem with, I think, gcc-4.3. Mostly it's just an annoyance, but sometimes it's very noticeable.
While I'm writing this (using ssh to my server, so perhaps taking 1% of the available cycles) I'm on my latest attempt to build icecat-3.6.9. Twice in that previous paragraph there was a noticeable lag between typing and seeing the characters appear. The more general problem is that we're using old hardware (my 7500 is an AGP card, I think some were PCI, so *old*). In my case, on this box with the 7500 I've got a fast disk and what, in it's day, was a fast athlon64 (2.4GHz). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
