Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg slow after upgrade

[Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 31 October 2009 17:34:30 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
[...]
>> I am using
>>
>> kernel  2.6.30.9 i686
>> xorg-server 1.6.3.901-r2
>> xorg-x11 7.4-r1
>> xf86-video-intel 2.8.1
>> hal 0.5.12_rc1-r8
>>
>> Also have some unresolved issues with windowmaker-0.92.0-r8 not
>> accepting background images on workspaces, and glxgears results lower
>> (by half) than I had with xorg-server-1.5:
>>
>> ->  glxgears
>> 2095 frames in 5.0 seconds = 418.739 FPS
>> 1800 frames in 5.0 seconds = 359.967 FPS
>> 1881 frames in 5.0 seconds = 376.091 FPS
>> 2097 frames in 5.0 seconds = 419.294 FPS
>> 2097 frames in 5.0 seconds = 419.286 FPS
>> 1887 frames in 5.0 seconds = 377.349 FPS
>> 1891 frames in 5.0 seconds = 378.111 FPS
>> 1911 frames in 5.0 seconds = 382.009 FPS
> 
> Are either of you using KDE-4?
> 
> I get this too, it's caused by plasma-desktop (top says it's 35% cpu) which 
> makes X block on some IO (100% of one cpu).
> 
> Killing and starting plasma-desktop fixes it for me.
> 

No I only use a window manager (windowmaker); ultraportable laptop. The
result from glxgears used to be twice as much what is posted above when
I had xorg-server-1.5.

--
Valmor

PS: Just realized that my imagemagick "import" application is not
working (this adds to the list of unresolved issues I currently have
with xorg). I can copy a section of my X window but the resulting image
saved by import is just a black rectangle (imagemagick-6.5.2.9)