Mathias: Holy crap! Those nvidia-settings made all the difference in the world for me!
---- Stats ---- o...@rabbit:~$ lspci | grep -i nvidia 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600GT (rev a1) o...@rabbit:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz o...@rabbit:~$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep '^Mem' MemTotal: 2071684 kB MemFree: 228652 kB o...@rabbit:~$ glxinfo | grep -i version server glx version string: 1.4 client glx version string: 1.4 GLX version: 1.3 OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 177.80 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler ---- Before ---- Scrolling is sluggish on some sites, especially those heavy with Javascript and images. This would occur whether compiz was on or off. http://lubosz.de/Firefox3PerformanceBug/ causes Firefox to slow down to a crawl (and to gray out in compiz). Everything would work just fine under windows running within Virtualbox... how embarassing. o...@rabbit:~$ nvidia-settings -q glyphcache -q initialpixmapplacement Attribute 'GlyphCache' (rabbit:0.0): 0. The valid values for 'GlyphCache' are in the range 0 - 1 (inclusive). 'GlyphCache' can use the following target types: X Screen. Attribute 'InitialPixmapPlacement' (rabbit:0.0): 1. The valid values for 'InitialPixmapPlacement' are in the range 0 - 4 (inclusive). 'InitialPixmapPlacement' can use the following target types: X Screen. ---- Workaround ---- o...@rabbit:~$ nvidia-settings -a glyphcache=1 Attribute 'GlyphCache' (rabbit:0.0) assigned value 1. o...@rabbit:~$ nvidia-settings -a initialpixmapplacement=2 Attribute 'InitialPixmapPlacement' (rabbit:0.0) assigned value 2. ---- After ---- Scrolling is silky smooth, even on http://lubosz.de/Firefox3PerformanceBug/ I have no idea what those nvidia-settings mean, or whether they are persistant, but this is definitely worth checking out. -- MASTER - slow scroll with image as background-repeat https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125970 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
