On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Wednesday 24 December 2008 16:32:46 Bill Williamson wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 7:09 AM, A JM <<a href="mailto:vbtalent@gmail.com">vbtalent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Thanks for all the help and tips.<br>
> ><br>
> > I finally gave up and installed fixes instead without issue on the<br>
> > compile and install but am seeing some slow menus and some other oddities<br>
> > I guess I need to try and track down.<br>
><br>
> Slow menus is usually an opengl issue.<br>
> Either:<br>
> -you're running compiz/etc, which is taking over opengl and making myth<br>
> slow or<br>
> -you don't have the proper drivers for GL set up, and so it's running via<br>
> MESA (eg software mode)<br>
<br>
</div></div>Recent distros (like Ubuntu 8.10) seem to enable compiz by default. I think<br>
this is a bad idea, but a lot fo folks seem to like the eye candy.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>To be fair, it's stable and doesn't interfere with 99% of applications. It even runs quickly (to my surprise) on my 6 year old 2100mhz amd laptop with 16meg ATI shared memory graphics... <br>
<br>It just needs to know how to disable itself when a full screen opengl app runs.<br>