Hi all... I've been using Kicad for well over a year now, and I love it. I recently bought a new laptop, compiled and installed Kicad, and noticed the following problem: pcbnew's display refreshes significantly more slowly than it does on my old machine. More details follow:
My new laptop is faster, has more memory, etc. than my old machine. Both are Intel processors (Pentium-M and Core 2 Duo). I'm running Fedora 10 on both machines, but I'm using the 64-bit version on my new laptop, and the 32-bit version on the old. On both machines I'm running pcbnew version 20090216-final, compiled on the respective laptops from source. (In case you ask, I think both computers have version 2.8.9 of the wxWidgets library. One other major difference is that my old laptop had an NVidia graphics card (don't remember which one) and the new one has an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670. I'm using the proprietary video drivers in both cases, from RPM Fusion. So the two major differences that I can see are the video card and the 64-bit versus 32-bit operating systems. On the new laptop, refreshing the display showing a routed design (or zooming in or out) is MUCH slower than for the same design on my old laptop. I can watch the individual traces appearing one after another, rather than all of them showing up in a fraction of a second. So, (sorry about the long-winded post, but I wanted to get all of the details down) anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Thanks!
