On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:33:02AM -0600, Jorge Mariani wrote: >> I have a Dell Precision M4300, CoreDuo, 4GB RAM, two disks (40GB Solid >> State, 80GB SATA), and nVidia Quadro FX360M. >> I have installed Ubuntu Server with LAMP. >> I usually run Firefox 3.0.3 with Firebug, Scite or Bluefish, Pidgin, >> and sometimes GIMP. >> > [snip] >> >> I navigated the whole internet looking for solutions, and none worked, >> until I found an article talking about GMail messaging and having >> issues with that. So, i disabled GMail from Pidgin (I only have Luca >> connected) and then voila, freezing is no longer happening, and the >> machine is usable again (besides the fact Firefox still eats round 40% >> CPU when scrolling a page). > > Noting that your video card is nvidia and you're seeing slow > scrolling, you're probably using the nv open source driver. > > If this is correct, you're likely experiencing software glyph and > compositing issues from Xorg. You'll notice this happens in varying > degress when Gecko renders layers of translucent images. The more > layers to blend the worse it get. > > Check if nouveau, the experimental accelerated driver, supports your > chipset. If so, you should experience quite better performance. I'm > using nouveau with a G7x card and Enlightenment. enable EXA and you'll have hardware accelerated xrender operations with 'nouveau' (except for fonts. For that, you have to have a very recent x server (1.5, better will be 1.6)) Vincent ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
