[mythtv-users] Slow recordings list in high resolution

[Paul Mason]

On 28/12/2007, Thomas Börkel <thomas at boerkel.de> wrote:
>
> HI!
>
> Paul Mason wrote:
>
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/293304
>
> Thanks for the pointer. I had seen this, but I was already using the
> NVidia binary driver.
>
> However, I found out what it was today.
>
> BTW, I also discovered, that it is depending on the theme. For example
> Titivillus and MythCenter-Wide are slow, MePo-Wide and Blootube-Wide are
> fast. Maybe it depends on how the theme is drawing the menu.
>
> OK, I finally copied my Gentoo PXE installation onto a disk (to make
> sure it is NOT PXE related) and then had a playground system to try more
> things, like using exactly the same NVidia driver and kernel config like
> my fast Fedora installation.
>
> Nothing helped UNTIL I upgraded to Xorg 1.4.0 (unstable in the Gentoo
> repository). And this fixed it! My Gentoo playground system is now as
> fast as my Fedora system.
>
> So, it's maybe a bug in Xorg 1.2.0 and 1.3.0.
>
> For the archive: If navigating through the list of recordings is slow in
> high resolution with some themes, then try another Xorg version!


Thanks for that. I tried  installing Xorg 7.3 (aka server 1.4) and it  has
improved some things but not the problem with slow menus that I have. I
tried it with and without the latest Nvidia driver (169.07) but I still get
the problem with tearing with the driver and slow menus without.

Oh well.


-- 
Paul Mason
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