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The system: eeepc 901, LXDE, compiz as WM (this has worked swimmingly for months)
The problem: all of a sudden, compiz exhibits a 3-second delay on every action.
Yesterday I performed a regular pacman -Syu, and there seemed to be a kernel-headers upgrade among other things that I forget. Maybe a dbus or hal thing or xorg whoseewhatsit.
The CPU monitor shows no exertion: all is normal there.
Openbox works fine, so I'm using it as a backup.
I checked my /etc/hosts settings: consistent with rc.conf.
I played with compiz settings, with no results.
My daemons in rc.conf have dbus before hal, but I tried other combinations to no effect.
My xorg.conf is minimal, and experimentation with that made no difference. (Since Openbox works, I suspect this is a Compiz problem and not X, unless it has to do with compositing.)
Two clues:
I had the same problem a few weeks ago, but solved it by removing my user accounts from the "video" group. Root still had the delay, but I never log on as root, so I lived with it. Also, I didn't get this problem when connected to an external monitor. (I didn't check this time, but I suspect the same.)
I sometimes (usually after an upgrade) receive an error message about gtk settings. I don't have the suggested file: ~/.gtkrc-2.0, but everything seems to work and I just assume LXDE is taking care of that stuff in its own way.
This is probably something stoopid that I hope y'all will forgive.
Last edited by eeepc ranger (2009-09-01 01:24:53)
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I guess that you have an intel card. Try:
1)Logging in without xorg.conf
2)Experimenting with:
xf86-video-intel-legacy, xf86-video-intel, xf86-video-intel-newest, xf86-video-intel-git.
And see which one has the best performance.
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flamelab: Efharishto! (And many thanks, too!)
The legacy version works just fine.
If anyone reports better performance with the "newest" version, I'll give it a try.
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Νο prob. I think that with the new kernel, that has new TTM code, xf86-video-intel (not legacy, the new one), will have proper performance.
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