Re: X11 display terribly slow after upgrade
"Andrew J. Barr" <andrew.james.barr@gmail.com> writes:
> Andrew J. Barr wrote:
>> Zlatko Calusic wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> First post to the list after a looong time, so be gentle. :)
>>>
>>> I'm using lenny/sid distribution. Few days ago, after Xorg packages
>>> got upgraded to 1.3.0, display became very slow. Every redrawing,
>>> every scroll, it's all slow. On one machine it's actually unusable
>>> (Radeon Xpress 200M), on this one (Radeon 9500 Pro) it's just very
>>> slugish and annoying, feels like I'm running on P166 (instead of
>>> E6600).
>>>
>>> Is this a known bug? I'm quite surprised only I've noticed this (I
>>> went through the list archives). Also, it's quite hard to report this
>>> as a bug, because X11 is composed of so many packages, I don't know
>>> where to start. :(
>>
>> Are you using the free radeon driver or fglrx? If you are using the
>> free driver, post your xorg.conf here as well as if you are using a
>> compositing manager or not. If you are, tell us whether it uses GLX
>> (3D) or RENDER (2D).
>
> I would additionally suggest browsing through recent threads on the
> xorg mailing list, Radeon graphics performance problems were discussed
> in a few recent threads I can think of, including one person whose
> upgrade to 7.2 caused performance issues with EXA and a 2D compositing
> manager.
>
Thank you for the additional info Andrew, I'll sure go and check what
the others are reporting, it looks like it could be the same problem.
--
Zlatko
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