Comment 111 for bug 38131

On 24/02/09 15:49 Christopher Giroir 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.

FYI, I am running Lenny on a Powermac G4. Firefox does not have this issue
normally.

But (interestingly enough) if I try to import my bookmarks (which date back
to my Netscape 1.x bookmarks from about 1994), then it has the same problem.
Alas, removing the bookmarks on my ThinkPad R61i does not seem to fix the
problem. It needs more fiddling to see what's going on, but still, it makes
me wonder if that is the cause....

> 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)

I have a similar machine....

> 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?

Doesn't fix the problem for me.

> I also think a lot of the problems in this bug report might not be for
> the same actual bug.

I agree.