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From: Bartosz Szatkowski <bulislaw@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:14:52
Message-Id: 1271790845.9947.5.camel@bulislaw-laptop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox by Grant
1 Dnia 2010-04-20, wto o godzinie 11:51 -0700, Grant pisze:
2 > >> ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance.
3 > >>
4 > >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
5 > >>
6 > >> -
7 > >> deface
8 > > But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf,
9 > > moreover its discouraged to use one. (or just i think so)
10 >
11 > Exactly.
12 >
13 > > Grant, try to reemerge firefox (and if You haven't done it already the
14 > > x11-drivers/*)
15 >
16 > I re-emerged them with no change. I do think it has to do with
17 > x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel though. I've had this problem in the
18 > past, and the solution was to mask
19 > >x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.7.1. Unfortunately, those drivers
20 > don't work with the latest xorg updates and now I'm on
21 > xf86-video-intel-2.9.1. My wife has an identical laptop with the same
22 > issue.
23 >
24 > - Grant
25 >
26 Are you using modeset? What about other apps (try some video etc) -
27 laging to? Check if You have "Direct rendering true" in out of glxinfo.
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