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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:06:01
Message-Id: hcs8nf$ai8$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox by 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com>
1 On 11/04/2009 04:55 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
2 > Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >>> [...]
4 >> Gah, the Flash plugin is very buggy with 3.6 (rendering corruption).
5 >> I reverted to 3.5.4 and downgraded to Gtk+ 2.16.6 and gtkmm 2.16.0
6 >> instead.
7 >>
8 >> Any pointers at to what might be wrong are still welcome.
9 >>
10 >
11 > Shot in the dark here.
12 >
13 > NVidia updated their drivers at about the time you started having
14 > problems. Their latest driver update changed the permissions on
15 > /dev/nvidia0 nvidiactl ; resulting in VERY slow scrolling response on
16 > my box (amd64) using googleearth. Changing the permissions to crwxrw-rw-
17 > resulted in instant speed up; you may get by with r--r-- (?).
18
19 Thanks, but that's not it. I'm on ATI and /dev/ati/card0 has the right
20 permissions. And it works just fine with older Gtk+, just not with newer.