[Xorg] strange scrolling

abe.sinner · 2006-09-12 20:26:11

I recently updated Xorg and when I restarted X everything worked just fine. But when I opened Firefox and scrolled up and down (with mouse or scroll bar) the current page scrolled very slow and painful. First I though is was a Firefox only problem, but when I opened Rox and Opera they had the same problem. I did some search on Google, and ArchLinux but I could not find a solution.

Pleas can someone help me with my problem?

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Chman · 2006-09-12 21:05:02

I'm not quite sure, but it could be a video driver problem... Are they working correctly ?

abe.sinner · 2006-09-13 13:44:05

How can I check that? When I close the x environment, I don't see anything that could be caused by a drive problem.

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ralvez · 2006-09-13 14:22:08

I have the same problem.
To minimize the "unpleasant" effect I disabled "smood scroll" in firefox. I noticed however that the problem in present in other apps too like Quanta. I suppose (hope ;-) )that it will be fixed soon.

brazzmonkey · 2006-09-13 14:26:33

try to disable any composite extension in your xorg.conf and see if that helps.
also, what's your video card ?

and take a look here : http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … highlight=

abe.sinner · 2006-09-13 15:32:57

ralvez wrote:

I have the same problem.
To minimize the "unpleasant" effect I disabled "smood scroll" in firefox. I noticed however that the problem in present in other apps too like Quanta. I suppose (hope ;-) )that it will be fixed soon.

I already disable "smood scroll", unfortunately it didn't help (but thx anyway)

I have a ati (x300) card, and according to hwd the VGA compatible controller is vesa realtek.

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iBertus · 2006-09-13 17:04:59

Has anyone tried using the vendor provided binary drivers to see if the problem is with all drivers or just the xorg ones?

Edit: I just updated to 7.1.1 myself and using the nvidia proprietary drivers it all looks fine. I do have a rather strange black square when I browse to the Arch forums from my homepage though. If anything, things seem faster and less choppy.

Neuro · 2006-09-13 19:01:23

I had a similar problem with nvidia binary drivers and xorg 7.0 (and 7.1). Font rendering was really slow... and then I discovered I had sub-pixel antialiasing on. Googled a bit, and found a thread in the NV forums about the problem and how font sub-pixel antialiasing is not accelerated. It appears to be about 1000x slower than normal gray antialiasing.

asafsha · 2006-09-13 19:54:52

I have the same problem. I use a vesa driver on a S3 pro savage, and after updating to xorg 7.1 scrolling is very slow and flickring, also the movment of the windows has the same effect.
I would have try the original driver but that one on the repository is XFree86 and I don't want to comile from source.
I didn't had had any of these problems before...

abe.sinner · 2006-09-14 14:21:28

I have installed and configured the ati-drive on my computer and now I don't have any problems anymore with the scrolling or anything else. So I advice you to install the official ati or nvidia drives if you have a ati or nvidia cart. I also advice you to read the following pages:http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg and especially: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg7

I hope this informations is as helpful to you as it was to me.

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