On Wednesday 18 February 2009 20:03:52 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 19:50:09 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > > > Maybe you could describe what the problem is. Maybe including the > > hardware embedded in the laptop (ie video card, cpu type, memory etc.) > > Basically, I had been seeing increasing slowdowns of many functions, > including long pauses before kmail could send a message out (and during > which no other activity was possible). These could last anything up to > around 15 seconds. It had proved impossible to find a pattern to the > behaviour. I could have been suffering from this for hours, then suddenly > one or two messages would depart promptly. > > All this was on the Acer Aspire One, which has an Intel Mobile 945GME > Express graphics unit. I had desktop effects enabled, but was only using > 'dim inactive windows'. Two days ago I decided to try changing the > compositing type from OpenGL to XRender. The improvement was immediate and > obvious. It isn't perfect, but it's a great deal better. > > I know that information is being gathered about various display card > problems. I want to add this one to the collection, and to point out the > workaround. FWIW, at least one other user that I have talked to has had a > similar result though the details differ. He will add his information to > my report. I only see pauses when using kmail. Sometimes it pause for no obvious reasons (no disc activity FWIW). > Anne -- Jos? Ab?lio
