Scrolling lag

bostoniman · 2006-09-09 22:59:36

I just ran a pacman -Syu which included some Xorg updates. Now, when I scroll in any program, it is very laggy, and looks as if it's screen refreshing every line. It took me 30 seconds to scroll from the top of the Forum index to the bottom. Is anybody else having this problem, or been able to fix it?

cedric · 2006-09-13 13:03:35

I have the same problem since I upgraded to xorg 7.1, it's horrible.

Seems that X has now problems with DRI (in Xorg.log):

(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable

Maybe this is the source of the problem ...

I use vesa driver and it was fine with previous versions of xorg.
My video card is a PowerVR KYRO II (HERCULES), and the provider doesn't even offer a 2.6 kernel driver, so i'm sticked with vesa for now.

ralvez · 2006-09-13 14:25:39

Yup. Same here.
Hope gets fixed soon.

bostoniman · 2006-09-13 14:36:07

I use the VESA driver as well. I wonder if it's all drivers having this problem, or just the VESA one? At any rate, no known solutions at this time?

cedric · 2006-09-13 17:00:28

It seems we're not alone: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=25079

other drivers users seem to be touched: matrox, trident

bostoniman · 2006-09-13 17:03:24

Well, apparently this is a core issue with Xorg. Has anybody filed a bug report? I looked briefly earlier, but didn't see anything.

cedric · 2006-09-14 16:08:17

Seems there is one now: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5398

bostoniman · 2006-09-14 21:41:01

Well that's convenient. Hopefully that gets resolved soon.

murffatksig · 2006-09-18 21:27:32

Anyone know if this has been fixed? My Radeon 7500 Mobility M7 uses the Vesa drivers and it's miserable.

bostoniman · 2006-09-19 01:00:15

Still haven't heard of any fixes to this yet.

Alphalutra1 · 2006-09-19 01:18:04

It's pretty miserable on my pc, since I use the VESA drivers since I have an ATI Rage 16MB(pretty bad huh?) I was wondering though, is there a way to rollback to version 7.0 of x.org while the bug is fixed?

Alphalutra1

bostoniman · 2006-09-19 02:10:10

I tried doing it, and it fucked my system to hell. Don't try it.

bones · 2006-09-19 20:31:31

It can be rolled back with a bit of work though. I don't know if this is the right way but this is what I did. pacman -Rs xorg, I then reinstalled from CD 0.7.2. What I did was try to reinstall xorg, when it spat out that FILE > WHATEVER was needed I installed that file first the went back to trying to reinstall xorg. Took me about 30minutes to get it all working again perfectly. There's probably an easier way to do this but it worked for me. I've now set up another box so I can test updates before I update my main box so I don't get caught out again :oops:

murffatksig · 2006-09-19 20:54:13

Surely there is an easy fix to this. I'm surprised we haven't found one yet.

bostoniman · 2006-09-19 21:23:47

Yeah, but so far nobody's come up with any ideas. I don't really know anything about the inner workings of xorg, so I can't be of much help.

Snowman · 2006-09-20 00:49:24

TRy the latest xorg-server, mesa and drivers packages that were released today. They contain a fix to solve DRI issues.

bostoniman · 2006-09-20 00:56:01

I updated and rebooted and still have the problem.

murffatksig · 2006-09-20 01:30:11

Me too, I did a

pacman -Syu

and rebooted (just in case) and it still doesnt work.

Alphalutra1 · 2006-09-21 00:00:19

Same here , still have that aweful scrolling lag. Besides that, arch is becoming one of my favorite os's now

Alphalutra1

murffatksig · 2006-09-26 13:00:08

My laptop has the ATI Radeon Mobility M7 card. I tried to recompile my kernel and include the radeon drivers hoping that would work. But i just get an error saying the radeon driver does not exist. Anyone find a fix for this yet?

asafsha · 2006-09-28 15:33:04

I had the same problem with VIA unichrome driver that has been solved after installing the xf86-video-via driver.

murffatksig · 2006-10-07 23:04:35

Since I'm using the vesa driver, I checked and I already have the lateset xf86-video-vesa driver. Don't know if this plans on being fixed soon. It's been quite a pain for quite some time now.

Anyone???

murffatksig · 2006-10-08 16:17:26

WOOO HOOO!!!

I did a Pacman -Syu today and noticed there was a new version of xf86-video-vesa and then my video problems were solved. Thanks!

Alphalutra1 · 2006-10-08 20:34:07

Sweet! No more lag! Nice job devels at fixing this problem. Now I have a problem free arch and it has definately become my favorite distro now!

Alphalutra1

cedric · 2006-10-09 12:47:15

Same here, all vesa related problems disappeared after last upgrade. Arch was, is and will stay my favourite distribution !

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