Jim Kronebusch wrote:
-- snipped -- > EndSection > > Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" > Disables accelerated draws into pixmaps stored in offscreen > video memory. This 'offscreen video memory' refers to memory on the graphics card. NOT the system memory. Enabling or disabling this would only work for cards that have extra ram, and it would have NO affect on the problem that you've been talking about for a couple of weeks here. As for your comment about thinking this is an Xorg problem. I sort of agree/disagree. I think it's a problem in the interface BETWEEN the Xserver and the Xclients. The Xserver needs to be able to refuse requests for pixmap allocation, and the Xclients need to pay attention to that refusal and gracefully handle it. Right now, we are limiting pixmap allocation by setting X_RAMPERC. the problem is, the Xclients die a horrible death when they don't get what they want from the Xserver. Firefox is requesting the Pixmap caching so that when you move from page to page, you don't have to wait for the graphic images to get sent to the Xserver. They'd already be there. Konquerer and Opera don't do that, and the performance doesn't seem to suffer. I think that the Firefox guys just need to add an option to NOT try to send the images ahead of time, and to request removal of the pixmaps as early as possible. (Like when you move from one page to the next). As for OpenOffice using the Xserver as a cache for print jobs.... that just seems really strange. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
