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einheitlix

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Registered: 2009-03-31

Posts: 16

[solved] man pages painfully slow with compiz

Hi,

since recently I've got this problem when using Compiz, that when I open a man page in a terminal, navigation is painfully slow. For example, when I use the cursor keys to navigate through the man page, it lags horribly. This doesn't occur when I use metacity instead of compiz as a window manager.

Everything else is ok. Even when I visualize a long file using 'less', the performance is totally normal (no lags).

It's true that I updated a lot packages recently, and attached a second monitor to my graphics card, and modified my xorg.conf accordingly, so it might come from that somehow... however, I don't know which could be the cause. There was an update of xf86-video-ati (I'm using the opensource radeon drivers with my ATI Radeon 9600 Pro) and of man-db, but downgrading these guys doesn't seem to help. Disabling my second monitor did not help either

Has anyone else seen this problem? Any clue what might be going on?

Thanks !

Malte

Last edited by einheitlix (2009-10-22 12:39:17)

jarryson

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Registered: 2007-02-18

Posts: 298

Re: [solved] man pages painfully slow with compiz

you mean everything very slow in terminal?

try to change your "AccelMethod" to "EXA" in xorg.conf

and check wiki and see if there have a solution.

einheitlix

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Registered: 2009-03-31

Posts: 16

Re: [solved] man pages painfully slow with compiz

Hi,

thanks, you pointed me in the right direction !

Actually I had to do the opposite: I had EXA enabled in my xorg.conf (one of the many things I changed while tuning my xorg.conf to use my secondary screen). Disabling EXA solved the problem.

Since I upgraded to kernel 2.6.31 and had problems with compiz (white screen), I had to disable KMS. See http://www.archlinux.org/news/468/
As soon as mesa-7.6 is out, I will try to re-enable KMS and then re-enable EXA. Hopefully this will solve the problem too, I'd like that better than disabling EXA

Cheers,

Malte

Last edited by einheitlix (2009-10-22 12:37:05)