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From: Joost Kraaijeveld on 6 Jan 2010 00:30 Hi, I recently switched from Xinerama to RandR to use my two monitors in a dual head configuration. After doing that the switching between workspaces is taking a lot of time (3-5 seconds), which was (almost) instantaneous with Xinerama. Is this a known feature for this card/driver or is there a magic setting in a xorg.conf that can solve this? Or should I just revert to the Xinerama? I am using the latest version of the drivers as from the non-free Debian testing repositories: 9.12-1 on a Debian AMD64 (testing) machine. TIA -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 web: www.askesis.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Sascha Silbe on 6 Jan 2010 05:40 On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:26:39AM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > I recently switched from Xinerama to RandR to use my two monitors in a > dual head configuration. After doing that the switching between > workspaces is taking a lot of time (3-5 seconds), which was (almost) > instantaneous with Xinerama. I'm encountering the same issue on a single head setup (never used Xinerama). What window manager are you using (ion3 for me)? CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/
From: Joost Kraaijeveld on 6 Jan 2010 05:50 On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:32 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:26:39AM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > > I recently switched from Xinerama to RandR to use my two monitors in a > > dual head configuration. After doing that the switching between > > workspaces is taking a lot of time (3-5 seconds), which was (almost) > > instantaneous with Xinerama. > I'm encountering the same issue on a single head setup (never used > Xinerama). What window manager are you using (ion3 for me)? I am using gdm, in an as-is apt-get-install-debian-testing-with-Gnome-installation. -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 web: www.askesis.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Sascha Silbe on 6 Jan 2010 06:30 On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:41:38AM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: >> I'm encountering the same issue on a single head setup (never used >> Xinerama). What window manager are you using (ion3 for me)? > I am using gdm, in an as-is > apt-get-install-debian-testing-with-Gnome-installation. gdm is a display manager (I'm using xdm, BTW). The default gnome window manager should be metacity (you can check that with "ps uxww |grep metacity"). Anyway we are obviously using totally different window managers, but the problem is the same. Sounds like either an X server or driver issue then... As you are running testing (lenny here), can you try wether the delay occurs with the open source drivers (radeon and radeonhd IIRC) as well, please? BTW: I already tried enabling double buffering, but it made the delay even worse. FTR: ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii fglrx-driver 1:8-12-4 non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx, r7xx display dr ii ion3 20080825-1 tiling tabbed window manager designed for ke ii xdm 1:1.1.8-5 X display manager ii xorg 1:7.3+20 X.Org X Window System 01:05.0 0300: 1002:9610 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device d000 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at ee00 [size=256] Memory at fdfe0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at fde00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci Kernel modules: fglrx CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/
From: Joost Kraaijeveld on 6 Jan 2010 07:20
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:24 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:41:38AM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > >> I'm encountering the same issue on a single head setup (never used > >> Xinerama). What window manager are you using (ion3 for me)? > > I am using gdm, in an as-is > > apt-get-install-debian-testing-with-Gnome-installation. > gdm is a display manager (I'm using xdm, BTW). The default gnome window > manager should be metacity (you can check that with "ps uxww |grep > metacity"). Ah, of course, sorry about the confusion: yes, Metacity. > Anyway we are obviously using totally different window managers, but the > problem is the same. Sounds like either an X server or driver issue > then... > As you are running testing (lenny here), can you try wether the delay > occurs with the open source drivers (radeon and radeonhd IIRC) as well, > please? I can try that but not before early next week: I need a working machine because of some deadlines and I am not prepared to experiment more that just running Debian testing, especially as my chipset is not mentioned explicitly in the Debian package (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd) My configuration btw: 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV670 AGP [Radeon HD 3850] Packages: fglrx*: 1:9-12-1 xorg: 1:17.4+4 -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 web: www.askesis.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org |