- Dragging a window around (Gnome/Compiz or KDE) results in the window
following the mouse cursor by about 1-2sec. It eventually caches up
- Switching desktops in KDE looks less like fluid motion and more like a
mess of staic. It does actually work.
- Task switcher takes so long to draw the window changes it is
completely unusable.
Thanks for looking into this!
-Chris
Ben Gamari (FOSS) wrote:
I think it would be most useful if you could get a profile for the
slow
test cases. How does the slow performance manifest itself?
- Ben
Chris Bredesen wrote:
> Will Woods wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 17:44 -0500, Chris Bredesen wrote:
>>
>>> Compositing has been horrible from day one. I've tried the minimal
>>> Compiz that comes with Gnome, I've tried full-on Compiz Fusion and
>>> I've tried KDE's compositing. The performance is equally bad in all
>>> three. I've run Compiz on FC6 and F8 using this laptop (Intel
>>> GMA950) and the GPU is more than adequate to make the effects useful.
>> I'll bet you're on an x86_64 system. There's a whole mess of bugs
filed
>> about this already. Checking F10Target[1], I find a bug named
>> "i810slow64bit". So you'll want to have a look at those:
>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=469690&hide_res...
>>
> Thanks, Will. I'm not on 64-bit though.
>
> Linux 2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 00:49:42 EDT 2008 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> I'll poke around BZ a bit more to see if I can find anything. My
> searches have been fruitless so far though.
>
> -CB
>