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On Thursday 28 October 2010 13:35:49 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> xorg-server 1.8 and 1.9 use mesa-7.8.2, and there's reports around |
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> that that version of mesa causes desktop slowdowns. mesa-7.7.1 as |
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> used by xorg- server-1.7 is reported to be fine |
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This box has been the most sluggish box I've ever seen for several |
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months now. Mesa-7.7.1 was not fine here - or something else wasn't. |
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> Me, I'm undecided. I have a slow sluggish desktop, but it might be |
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> the nvidia drivers, mesa, X-server, kernel config, wrong elevator or |
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> even just the shitty IO scheduler design on desktops that the kernel |
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> devs are recently waking up to admitting to. Lots of stuff to change |
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> one at a time and see what results... |
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Puzzling, innit? |
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Rgds |
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Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. |
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