Re: gEDA-user: PCB very slow on new laptop
I have recently got a new laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad X201. However, I'm having a rather annoying problem with pcb. When trying to zoom in or scroll, it is incredibly slow - taking a second or more to do any action. Check out my last thread and see if that solves your problem. At least the system profiler will allow you to see where the program is burning up the CPU. Cory ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: PCB very slow on new laptop
I'll have to figure out how to do that. It does has 4 GB system memory though, don't know how much video RAM it will allocate. On 13 March 2011 07:16, Steven Michalske [1]smichal...@gmail.com wrote: Can you up the ram available to the graphics? I recall that had a large impact on performance in prior Email threads. Steve On Mar 12, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Thomas Oldbury [2]toldb...@gmail.com wrote: I have recently got a new laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad X201. However, I'm having a rather annoying problem with pcb. When trying to zoom in or scroll, it is incredibly slow - taking a second or more to do any action. I'm running pcb on another laptop and it doesn't have any problems, it's very fast, and I'm testing them with the same pcb file. I suspect that it has something to do with the Intel integrated graphics, as the other laptop has ATI. Has anyone encountered these problems? btw, new one is running 32-bit Ubuntu 10.10 (soon to upgrade to 64-bit), the other is running 64-bit 10.04. PCB version is the same: 20091103, plucked from the Ubuntu repos. Many thanks. ___ geda-user mailing list [3]geda-user@moria.seul.org [4]http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ___ geda-user mailing list [5]geda-user@moria.seul.org [6]http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user References 1. mailto:smichal...@gmail.com 2. mailto:toldb...@gmail.com 3. mailto:geda-user@moria.seul.org 4. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user 5. mailto:geda-user@moria.seul.org 6. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: PCB very slow on new laptop
On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 09:34 +, Thomas Oldbury wrote: I'll have to figure out how to do that. It does has 4 GB system memory though, don't know how much video RAM it will allocate. With anything reasonably recent, it will allocate what it needs - the memory pool is completely shared. With Ubuntu 10.10, you should be fine. I do run a later kernel with mine though (the one from Natty) - as it has better support for these chips. What video chip do you have? It may be that it is a new enough chip that you need to get a more recent kernel and/or video driver. Aside from this - Intel integrated graphics just isn't very powerful, but it does sound like you're seeing a bug rather than just a limit of the hardware. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: PCB very slow on new laptop
On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 12:42 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 09:34 +, Thomas Oldbury wrote: I'll have to figure out how to do that. It does has 4 GB system memory though, don't know how much video RAM it will allocate. With anything reasonably recent, it will allocate what it needs - the memory pool is completely shared. With Ubuntu 10.10, you should be fine. I do run a later kernel with mine though (the one from Natty) - as it has better support for these chips. What video chip do you have? It may be that it is a new enough chip that you need to get a more recent kernel and/or video driver. Answering my own question - it seems it will be an Ironlake die in an Arrandale series chipset. Fairly new, but it isn't a Sandy-bridge, which might still have some issues with the drivers. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
gEDA-user: PCB very slow on new laptop
I have recently got a new laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad X201. However, I'm having a rather annoying problem with pcb. When trying to zoom in or scroll, it is incredibly slow - taking a second or more to do any action. I'm running pcb on another laptop and it doesn't have any problems, it's very fast, and I'm testing them with the same pcb file. I suspect that it has something to do with the Intel integrated graphics, as the other laptop has ATI. Has anyone encountered these problems? btw, new one is running 32-bit Ubuntu 10.10 (soon to upgrade to 64-bit), the other is running 64-bit 10.04. PCB version is the same: 20091103, plucked from the Ubuntu repos. Many thanks. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: PCB very slow on new laptop
Can you up the ram available to the graphics? I recall that had a large impact on performance in prior Email threads. Steve On Mar 12, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Thomas Oldbury toldb...@gmail.com wrote: I have recently got a new laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad X201. However, I'm having a rather annoying problem with pcb. When trying to zoom in or scroll, it is incredibly slow - taking a second or more to do any action. I'm running pcb on another laptop and it doesn't have any problems, it's very fast, and I'm testing them with the same pcb file. I suspect that it has something to do with the Intel integrated graphics, as the other laptop has ATI. Has anyone encountered these problems? btw, new one is running 32-bit Ubuntu 10.10 (soon to upgrade to 64-bit), the other is running 64-bit 10.04. PCB version is the same: 20091103, plucked from the Ubuntu repos. Many thanks. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user