On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner <kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 22:15 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner > > <kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 19:40 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > > > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > > > > > > > > Sorry to hijack this thread but the performance of Firefox 3.0beta5 > > > > > has been painful to say the least - I haven't seen the same sort of > > > > > performance issues as I did with 2.0.14 - oh, and for some reason > > > > > Flash seems to be a major lag creating performance killer - or is > > > > > that just normal for Flash on *NIX? > > > > > > > > What sort of performace problems are you seeing? Is it possible that > > > > since this is Beta software it has many internal diagnostics and > > > > validation logic enabled in order to try to find any inconsistencies? > > > > If so, that would make it slower. > > > > > > > > The other issue is of course that almost every major software release > > > > is slower than the one that came before. The number of necessary > > > > shared libraries tends to multiply like Gerbils since everyone wants > > > > their small contribution (requiring another huge library) to be > > > > included. Some might call this the "Microsoft domino effect". > > > > > > > > If you can create a debug build, I expect that 'spot' would be able to > > > > identify the offending code which makes Mozilla slow. It was spot-on > > > > for my own application. > > > > > > > More along the lines of, when YouTube loads, the animation is very > > > jaggy; when videos play, the video play back (even will fully > > > downloaded) is jaggy and out of sink. > > > > > > I'm wondering if it is my graphics card, because I have enough memory > > > (2.5GB) and the CPU should be more than powerful enoug (3.2Ghz P4). > > > > Have you checked your Xorg.0.log to make sure an accelerated video > > driver is loading? > > > > Sounds like what Solaris was like for me when I was using the standard > > "nv" driver instead of the nVidia one. > > I've got a ATI Radeon X300 (PCIe) - so it'll be the standard Xorg radeon > one. the same sort of skipping didn't occur when I ran Fedora 8.
It likely wouldn't. Try setting the ShadowFB option in your device section to true in xorg.conf: Option "ShadowFB" "true" That will likely solve the issue -- it did for me in the past. -- Shawn Walker "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
