Dear Maintainer:
I need to advise you that the current package in Stretch xserver-xorg-video-qxl
0.1.4-3+b1 is
***NOT*** fixed
on my Stretch I manually recompile xserver-xorg-video-qxl and applied the
following patch:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-qxl.git/plain/no-surfac
I need to add some information. Here is a link to a thread to Jessie downstream
distro suffering from issue: https://forums.whonix.org/t/qxl-slowness-fix/1759
Fedora has some patches applied to QXL and maybe they would help:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-qxl.git/tree/
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On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 22:58:26 -0400 Pat Roberts
wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
Hi,
> When QXL video is selected in a virt-manager Debian Jessie or Wheezy
guest, the
> performance of a whole class of applications is so bad it renders the
driver
> unusable, up to appearing locked up.
Could you pl
WORKAROUND (finally!!!):
sudo editor /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-qxl.conf
# insert the following:
Section "Device"
Identifier "qxl"
Driver "qxl"
Option "ENABLE_SURFACES" "False"
EndSection
# save + reboot with QXL video
This was suggested on a mailing list for a downstream Jessie distro
I wonder if these issues and lack of configurability aren't related to the
fact that xserver-xspice package (part of QXL source) appears to be
missing from Jessie altogether??
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/xserver-xspice
Another note: I've found this affects other Jessie-based distros
as w
Another way to replicate:
Simply run the Jessie live CD (debian-live-8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop.iso) as a
guest in Virt-Manager with QXL driver (default) and try to load Iceweasel and
try to scroll through some websites for 10 minutes. Even with spice-vdagent
missing, with only the qxl driver the
Minor correction:
I used the Cirrus driver on Wheezy machines. For Jessie machines I have it set
to the VGA driver (because Cirrus has issues on Jessie guests as well).
I had no luck trying to backport the xserver-xorg-video-qxl package from Sid
locally on my own (green screen) and limited abil
Package: xserver-xorg-video-qxl
Version: 0.1.1-2+b1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
When QXL video is selected in a virt-manager Debian Jessie or Wheezy guest, the
performance of a whole class of applications is so bad it renders the driver
unusable, up to appearing locked up.
The most obvi
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