Description of problem: In some applications like firefox or openoffice documents are scrolled to slow when using compiz. CPU usage is also increase. If do not use one the scrolling is much faster. My hardware is Pentium 3 and radeon 9600 video-card. I use driver named "radeon".
About hardware... I meant Pentium 4 3 GHz...
Is there any way to improve scrolling performance?
you can turn off smooth scrolling in firefox. I have the same problem as you.
This is not a solution... Even then scrolling is much slower than without desktop effects...
I also use the "radeon" driver with a Radeon 9000 on a 1.4 GHz AMD CPU. I had the same problem. My workaround was to change from "Millions of Colors" to "Thousands of Color" in "System->Administration->Display". Maybe the problems lies with the radeon driver? I have a laptop that uses an Intel video which didn't have this problem.
Just to clarify, I'm using the stock video driver that comes with FC6. I've pasted in a few lines from my Xorg log file that may be useful: (II) LoadModule: "radeon" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so (II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 4.2.0 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0 (II) LoadModule: "ati" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so (II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 6.6.3 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
Same problem here! Everything works great with AIGLX enabled: drawing menus is fast, moving windows is fast, GNOME just flies, except window resizing and scrolling! Scrolling and resizing is so slow that the whole system is unusable. And problem is not only showing in Firefox and OpenOffice but in every other application: terminal, eclipse, gedit... My machine is a bit old (pentium tualatin 1.2 GHz oc 1.4 GHz, radeon 9000) but scrolling and resizing works great with AIGLX disabled and every other AIGLX and compiz effect really flies! I would like to know will this problem be addressed in Fedora 7 so we can finally use AIGLX and compiz on machine with ati graphic cards?
(In reply to comment #7) > Same problem here! Everything works great with AIGLX enabled: > drawing menus is fast, moving windows is fast, GNOME just flies, > except window resizing and scrolling! Scrolling and resizing is so slow > that the whole system is unusable. And problem is not only showing in Firefox > and OpenOffice but in every other application: terminal, eclipse, gedit... > My machine is a bit old (pentium tualatin 1.2 GHz oc 1.4 GHz, radeon 9000) > but scrolling and resizing works great with AIGLX disabled and every > other AIGLX and compiz effect really flies! > > I would like to know will this problem be addressed in Fedora 7 so we can > finally use AIGLX and compiz on machine with ati graphic cards? Have you tried setting your colors down to "thousands of colors"? That fixes it for me.
(In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #7) > > Same problem here! Everything works great with AIGLX enabled: > > drawing menus is fast, moving windows is fast, GNOME just flies, > > except window resizing and scrolling! Scrolling and resizing is so slow > > that the whole system is unusable. And problem is not only showing in Firefox > > and OpenOffice but in every other application: terminal, eclipse, gedit... > > My machine is a bit old (pentium tualatin 1.2 GHz oc 1.4 GHz, radeon 9000) > > but scrolling and resizing works great with AIGLX disabled and every > > other AIGLX and compiz effect really flies! > > > > I would like to know will this problem be addressed in Fedora 7 so we can > > finally use AIGLX and compiz on machine with ati graphic cards? > > Have you tried setting your colors down to "thousands of colors"? That fixes it > for me. Tried that, but it is not solution for my old hardware! I can notice speedup but it is not that significant! It's much slower in comparation with AIGLX being disabled. My biggest problem is scrolling (I can live perfectly well with slow resizing) and that really is stoping me from using such great technology as AIGLX! That is why I am hoping that problem will be solved in Fedora 7.
So, will this problem ever be solved? My hardware is good enough and compiz (and beryl) works good. But scrolling is terribly slow.
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I'm now on Fedora 7 and still have this problem. In fact, it's gotten worse. Scrolling is now slow in gnome-terminal even with my work around of setting the display color depth down to "thousands of colors". My latest workaround is to simply not use compiz. I really like the graphic effects, but there's just too many bugs with it.
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 285071 [details] My original xorg.conf file
Created attachment 285081 [details] Log file from when I was using my xorg.conf file
Created attachment 285101 [details] Log file from when I had no xorg.conf (but X wouldn't load without xorg.conf)
I've attached the requested files. X wouldn't load when I didn't have an xorg.conf file, so I doubt that log file will help ya any.
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