Comment 108 for bug 38131

I definitely agree with Christopher that this bug has become a sort of
basket case where all problems having to do with poor performance are
placed. It appears that there are at least 5-6 potentially separate
problems all together in here.

I also haven't heard from anyone claiming to be a developer/maintainer
in a very long time. Too long.

We need to focus this bug, and get some valuable input from
development. Suggestions?

-Ryan

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Christopher Giroir <email address hidden> wrote:
> I hate an issue in Debian Lenny that sounds a lot like this, just wanted
> to comment that AccelMethod "XAA" in my device section solved it for me.
>
> I was having VERY slow rendering times in Firefox. Switching tabs would
> take forever. My computer did not feel like it should.
>
> I'm on a Thinkpad X61s with lspci graphics card line:
> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
>
> My xorg.conf is largely autoconfigure (except for one Keyboard options
> line to replace caps lock with control). I ONLY added the AccelMethod
> "XAA" line to my device section to get this:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Configured Video Device"
> Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
> EndSection
>
> And suddenly firefox is incredibly fast again. In fact, I didn't notice
> this before but ALL GTK apps were slow and they are all faster. I think
> this might technically be an xorg auto config problem?
>
> I also think a lot of the problems in this bug report might not be for
> the same actual bug.
>
> --
> Firefox causes massive Xorg CPU usage
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/38131
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