On 20 May 2011 17:15, Marc Lehmann <schm...@schmorp.de> wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 05:11:59PM +0100, Alex Bennee > <kernel-hac...@bennee.com> wrote: >> Yep, all my machines are Intel graphics so that would be a common >> factor. I don't >> suppose you have a bug reference for that? >> >> How come it hits urxvt so badly when I don't see obvious corruption >> elsewhere? > > Nobody knows for sure, but urxvt tries very hard to avoid roundtrips > (compare starting xterm and urxvt over a slow remote connection to see why > :), so when x-servers forget to lock properly they might initiate e.g. > some copying while the previous draw operation is still in progress, as > urxvt tries hard to queue as many operations as possible.
I've updated the xorg-intel drivers on my Gentoo box at home to the latest 2.15.0 drivers and have seen a substantial improvement to urvt rendering on that machine. -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ http://www.half-llama.co.uk _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list rxvt-unicode@lists.schmorp.de http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
