On 10/08/12 13:26, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/08/2012 05:15 AM, Kevin Martin issued this missive: >> <snip> >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > >>> > Regards, >>> > >>> > ------------------------ >>> > Kevin Martin >>> > -- >>> >>> 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. >>> -- >>> test mailing list >>> test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> To unsubscribe: >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test >>> >>> >>> 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - "Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. - > - Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to - > - do their programming." -- Simon Slavin - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test