On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 02:54:30PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > I know this has been discussed in the past and I've been one to bring > it up, since I'm using a 600Mhz iBook running Ubuntu and OSX. > > Just for the information, I've tried various flavors of Linux and > Debian seemed faster but I always had to manually configure my Xorg > file. Ubuntu never asked any questions and the screen display was just > fine. Then running top I noticed that Xorg jumped to 80 or 90 percent > of the CPU load when typing in 1.5.0 on Ubuntu. So, I went into the > Xorg file and noticed that the default color depth was 24 and it > should be a maximum of 16. Changing this "DRAMATICALLY!!!!" changed > the speed of standard typing in a new document without figures or > notes or anything. So much so that there is absolutely no "slowness" > So my question is - Why does LyX 1.5.0 cause Xorg to use so much CPU > or how this could be decreased? Is this increase just because of Qt
Does this have to do with enabling dri (direct rendering interface? I remember that required 16 bits. Do Google Earth, Celestia, Stellarium also run dramatically faster? - Martin
