On 10/08/12 13:26, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 10/08/2012 05:15 AM, Kevin Martin issued this missive:
>> <snip>
>>> >
>>> >
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>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > ------------------------
>>> > Kevin Martin
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>>> I use F17 and Xfce. My PC is very old (Athlon) so I see a delay when
>>> switching to a thunderbird window but it's sometimes less
>>> than a second, sometimes maybe a couple of seconds.
>>> So specially if your computer isn't as old then maybe you have a video
>>> driver issue? Just a guess that might be wrong.
>>> So the issue exists but for some reason you're having it exaggerated.
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>>> I don't see any issues on my F18 instances (VirtualBox) and F18 installed
>>> on my laptop, so it must be something there is depending
>>> on hardware.
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>> Hmm, the switching problem is solved. But a second problem (which I hoped
>> would be fixed if I got the switching problem figured
>> out) still exists.
>>
>> For a little more background, in order to get the nouveau driver to work
>> with my card I had to set "Option "NoAccel" 1 " in the
>> Devices section of my xorg.conf file....without this X would crash every
>> time (there is an open bugzilla about this that nobody
>> seems interested in working on).
>
> Are you certain you don't have something else in the
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory that's turning it back on?
>
>> I used to start the OS with nouveau.noaccel=1 in the linux line but that
>> has stopped working (yet
>> another bugzilla that nobody is working on that I can tell). And I solved
>> my switching problem by adding this to my xorg.conf:
>>
>> Section "Extensions"
>> Option "Composite" "off"
>> EndSection
>>
>> So I can switch from workspace to workspace with no issue now. The other
>> issue I'm still seeing is when I move a window within the
>> workspace...instead of the window just moving to the new location that I
>> drag it to there is a noticeable delay in the repaint of
>> the window....if I set it so that the content of the window is not shown
>> during the move it's less noticeable but still obvious.
>> And occasionally the system doesn't recognize when I release the mouse
>> button during the move such that if I release the button but
>> continue to move the mouse the window still follows the mouse and ends up in
>> a place that I didn't intend.
>>
>> So I'm getting closer and will continue to experiment. Any thoughts or
>> suggestions greatly appreciated.
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FWIW, here's my xorg.conf and contents of the file in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
directory:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
FontPath "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
Option "NoAccel" "1" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "WrappedFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "GLXVBlank" # [<bool>]
#Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "SwapLimit" # <i>
#Option "AsyncUTSDFS" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nouveau"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "off"
EndSection
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/01-anaconda-keyboard.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "kickstart"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" ""
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
Kevin
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