On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 16:24, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> On 25 Sep 2002, James D Strandboge wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 14:06, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I should also mention that simply left clicking on the title bar of 
> > > > a window and dragging to move it does not always work with ShadowFB off.
> > > > It's like the mouse just didn't grab it or it takes a couple of seconds to
> > > > grab (with a cpu spike).
> > > 
> > >    This shouldn't have anything to do with ShadowFB or not. 
> > 
> > Yeah, I didn't think so either except that I would get that same 2
> > second or so cpu spike as I did when launching gnome-terminal.  After
> > playing with it, it is not that the mouse doesn't grab, it will grab
> > every time, it is just sometimes I have to wait for it-- maybe this is
> > related to the software/hardware cursor?
> 
>    Don't know.  I wouldn't think so.
> 
Sent a previous email-- HWcursor made no difference.  Mayebe if the cpu
spike can be eliminated when launching apps, this will go away too.
> > 
> > > 
> > > The only unusual thing I see in the server output is that you've
> > > disabled the hardware cursor.  You shouldn't do that, sw cursor
> > > is pretty expensive.
> > > 
> > I disabled it because I ended up with two very small ugly cursors with
> > it on.
> 
>    That only happens if you run the "nv" driver after the "nvidia" driver.
> Running the "nv" driver from startup you won't have that problem.
> 
Ok, that explains why I am not having the problem after reenabling it.

> 
> > 
> > >    I'm wondering if this laptop got stuck in some strange power save
> > > mode and the graphics engine clocks got turned down really low.
> > > What do you get on a benchmark like:
> > > 
> > >    x11perf -repeat 1 -shmput500
> > > 
> > > and 
> > > 
> > >    x11perf -repeat 1 -copywinwin500
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > I did the following with ShadowFB on at 16 bit color depth:
> 
>    I assume you mean without ShadowFB on.  That would be the
> interesting case.  And that copywinwin is too high for a 
> ShadowFB. 
> 
Correct.  Typo.

Jamie

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