Bug 413900

Summary: Window Scrolling Dramatic Slow Down - Desktop Effects Enabled
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Sebastian Barylski <sebastian>
Component: GNOMEAssignee: David Reveman <dreveman>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P2 - High CC: federico, sndirsch
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: openSUSE 11.0   
Whiteboard: gnome-performance
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Description Sebastian Barylski 2008-08-01 11:56:43 UTC
When I enable Desktop Effects in Gnome I experience annoying slow-down of window scrolling (e.g. a web page or OpenOffice document). The only way to get rid of the issue I found is to disable Desktop Effects.

Here you can find a recording of the issue: 
http:http://www.gorzkiepole.pl/video/recording.mp4 or 
//www.gorzkiepole.pl/video/recording.avi

My laptop is HP 530, video card is Intel 945 GM, 3D enabled.
# uname -a
Linux portatilgris 2.6.25.11-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-07-13 20:48:28 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

My xorg.conf:
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Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AIGLX" "on"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
  Option       "ZapWarning" "on"
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load         "extmod"
  Load         "type1"
  Load         "glx"
  Load         "freetype"
  Load         "dbe"
  Load         "dri"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  DisplaySize  331 207
  HorizSync    30-62
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "LGPHILIPSLCD LCD MONITOR"
  Option       "DPMS"
  Option       "PreferredMode" "1280x800"
  VendorName   "LPL"
  VertRefresh  43-60
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"
EndSection


Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 24
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15
    Modes      "1280x800" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      16
    Modes      "1280x800" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    Modes      "1280x800" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      8
    Modes      "1280x800" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
EndSection


Section "Device"
  BoardName    "945 GM"
  BusID        "0:2:0"
  Driver       "intel"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Option       "monitor-LVDS" "Monitor[0]"
  Screen       0
  VendorName   "Intel"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  Option       "Clone" "off"
  Option       "Xinerama" "off"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group      "video"
    Mode       0660
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
  Option       "Composite" "on"
EndSection
Comment 1 Federico Mena Quintero 2008-08-01 16:40:09 UTC
Reassigning to Dave for the Compiz part.  Dave, is this a general problem with Compiz, or is it a performance problem on the Intel driver?

We should allocate some time for X performance problems anyway...
Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2008-08-02 02:27:33 UTC
Use 'Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"' as workaround for now.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 411183 ***