On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Alex Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As of 4.4-beta (dmesg below), X has become sluggish on my Thinkpad X40. > Switching between tabs in Firefox takes about 2 seconds now. Starting a > new xterm takes about a second which before was instant. Switching > between "desktops" in cwm results in a one second delay between drawing > the outline of xterms and actually populating with text. > > Playing audio files with vlc while switching between firefox tabs causes > no pauses in the audio stream. > > xorg.conf hasn't changed since april 13 and I've upgraded to various > snapshots weekly times since then. > > Running top shows that Xorg uses about 10% cpu and firefox around 20%. I > don't recall either going that high before. Running X and firefox for a > few minutes causes the fan in my X40 to start spinning faster: There's > more work being done somewhere. > > I can reproduce this scenario with no .xsession and with an .xsession > that starts cwm. .xsession-errors only contains text related to ssh key > agent. > > Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this situation? (Short of going > back in time and building incremental changes from CVS). >
Are you using the 'intel' or 'i810' driver? It it's the intel driver, try either Sthen's suggestion or 'Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" to go back to XAA acceleration. If you're using the i810 driver, then I've no idea. -- Matthieu Herrb
