Thanks for the help.
Actually, I'm using the "nouveau" drivers as the nvidia ones apparently
don't like my screen and go on strike (just tested again, they still don't
work).

I have rebooted several times since yesterday, and the behavior of the
program is still the same, so it's probably not cache.

Laurent


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote:

> This probably isn't a help, but just in case...
>
> Also check the xorg conf file and syslog for which driver it's using (it
> often autodetects nowadays, and picks from among applicable installed
> drivers).
>
> In addition to which driver it's picking up, also check for whether it was
> able to load any device firmware blob or secondary (closed source) shared
> library.
>
> (Incidentally, I've actually noticed better 2D behavior overall from the
> open-source driver for my old Radeon laptop, except for video scaling.)
>
> Also maybe restart the xorg server or reboot.  I don't know give that
> advice, and I don't know the xorg internals, but occasionally (esp. with
> closed driver) I have noticed performance behavior that seems like the
> server might be bogged down with cached pixmaps or similar.  I've seen this
> with Firefox.
>
> Neil V.
>
>
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