On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:33:02AM -0600, Jorge Mariani wrote:
> I have a Dell Precision M4300, CoreDuo, 4GB RAM, two disks (40GB Solid
> State, 80GB SATA), and nVidia Quadro FX360M.
> I have installed Ubuntu Server with LAMP.
> I usually run Firefox 3.0.3 with Firebug, Scite or Bluefish, Pidgin,
> and sometimes GIMP.
>
[snip]
>
> I navigated the whole internet looking for solutions, and none worked,
> until I found an article talking about GMail messaging and having
> issues with that. So, i disabled GMail from Pidgin (I only have Luca
> connected) and then voila, freezing is no longer happening, and the
> machine is usable again (besides the fact Firefox still eats round 40%
> CPU when scrolling a page).
Noting that your video card is nvidia and you're seeing slow
scrolling, you're probably using the nv open source driver.
If this is correct, you're likely experiencing software glyph and
compositing issues from Xorg. You'll notice this happens in varying
degress when Gecko renders layers of translucent images. The more
layers to blend the worse it get.
Check if nouveau, the experimental accelerated driver, supports your
chipset. If so, you should experience quite better performance. I'm
using nouveau with a G7x card and Enlightenment.
Ross
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Ross Vandegrift
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"If the fight gets hot, the songs get hotter. If the going gets tough,
the songs get tougher."
--Woody Guthrie
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