*It is* a driver issue. Sometimes downgrading the driver to version 8.40 can help (but I don't know if your card is supported).
Regards, Pierpaolo On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:34 PM, David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clemens Eisserer wrote: > > Well compiz adds some overhead, but without further description about > > your settup there's nothing anybody can say/do. > > > > lg Clemens > > > > 2008/1/29, David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Listmates, > >> > >> Hopefully this is a compiz only question. Using the mouse wheel to > >> scroll down web pages seems to be much slower in compiz than in kde. It > >> also affects scrolling through long directories in konqueror (ex: > >> /usr/share/doc/packages) but to a lesser extent than web content. > >> Is there any setting, fix or workaround that might help? > >> > > Sorry Clemens, > > I should have included the specifics. The system is a Toshiba P35, P4 > 3.3GHz, 2G RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 9600/9700 series running openSuSE > 10.3 with the ATI 8.45.5 driver. > > I don't think it is a memory overhead issue. I have looked closely at > this with top/free -tm and compiz adds no more that 20M of memory > overhead which wouldn't be an issue here. > > The slowdown in scrolling I am talking about is by a factor of 2-4 > times slower than without compiz. With kwin, rolling the mouse wheel to > scroll web pages or konqueror directories results in immediate and crisp > scrolling of content either up or down depending on wheel rotate > direction. With compiz there is a notable delay in the time between > wheel input and scroll response (on the order of milliseconds ~ 400 or 500). > > The scroll delay problem is much improved with the latest 8.45.5 > driver > with the delay between wheel input and scroll decreasing greatly, but it > is still noticeable. Testing now in response to your post, this is much > improved over the 8.43 and earlier drivers. This leads me to suspect it > may be more of a driver issue than a compiz issue. I will test with the > 8.47 driver later today or tomorrow and report back. > > -- > > > David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. > Rankin Law Firm, PLLC > 510 Ochiltree Street > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > Telephone: (936) 715-9333 > Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 > www.rankinlawfirm.com > _______________________________________________ > compiz mailing list > compiz@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz > -- Pierpaolo Follia http://madchicken.altervista.org/tech _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz