k l s [2007-09-25 14:35]: > > I have pretty much no idea what to look at here. So I am CCing Tilman > > (the upstream dev). > > > > I didn't use WindowMaker recently so I don't have any idea what it looks > > like these days. Do you have the same problem in you start an empty > > session with something like "startx /usr/bin/xterm" ? > > I've tried using openbox w/ an xterm and it has no problems. Interesting! I'm clueless as to what's going on though. I'll try to look into it in the next days. > > The problem could related to the acceleration architecture. You're using > > the default right now (XAA). Does it help if you add: > > Option "NoAccel" "true" > > to the Device section of your xorg.conf? It will disable XAA > > acceleration completely. > > NoAccel is slower than I recall accelerated having been in the past > (as it ought). I think it starts faster than the standard XAA > acceleration, but it gets slower as windows are repeatedly exposed. > Some kind of resource starvation? > > > Or maybe the new architecture EXA would be better (I don't know how good > > it is in the mga driver so far). Does it help if you add > > Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" > > instead of the above NoAccel line? > > I think I remember having read that EXA isn't ready yet, but I tried > it for the heck of it. It's tremendously slower. At the moment, MGA's EXA implementation is only usable if you use Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy" Regards, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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