Xrender issues [Was: Analyzing and improving GNOME startup time]

[Martin Holt Juliussen]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 15:58 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le jeudi 06 octobre 2005 à 13:35 +0200, Martin Holt Juliussen a écrit :
> 
> > After what I have understood, it's because of the Cairo backend and that
> > it is not optimized yet. It seems it has only gotten worse while
> > development of Breezy has come forward. Dragging a window over a another
> > is disaster compared to how it was in Hoary 
> 
> There is some xrender issues causing slowness. What kind of videocard do
> you have? Could you try http://people.ubuntu.com/~seb128/cairo/ packages
> to note if that makes a difference? They have a patch that force a
> workaround for bugged xrender.

I got a i830 on a laptop, using the i810 driver in X (which detects it
as i830). I will check out those packages later today ro tomorrow. Is
there a place I can read more about this issue?


-- 
Martin Holt Juliussen <mjuliuss at online.no>