Bug#644302: nvidia-graphics-drivers: Bag of hurt using 285.05.09-1 against XOrg 1.11.1-1

[Marc J. Driftmeyer]

I figured your hands are tied.

So far, it seems GTK+ themes turn the Xorg server into a wait station. I 
switched out the GTK+ Theme for Chrome to it's default one and the 
system stop laging for Chrome.

However, Iceweasel, Thunderbird [while typing this] is like walking 
through a time field where the echo to the screen is a solid 1- 2 second 
delay that scales up to 2 seconds with several keys types in rapid 
succession.

Unfortunately, I think XUL/MozJS and the Theme engine don't like the 
latest Xorg/Nvidia combo.

Nvidia thinks it has to do with GPU acceleration verses software 
acceleration with trapezoids but after discovering the GTK+ Theme lag 
it's clear that how GTK+ is handling primitive window drawing with GDK 
and rasterizing fonts to the screen it's clear it's just not a rendering 
via the Driver side, but how GTK+/GDK, XOrg and Nvidia all work together.

I haven't been the most cordial with Nvidia but it appears as I'm typing 
this that there are quite a few memory leaks in GTK+ Themes, caching 
issues and much more.

- Marc

On 10/04/2011 02:42 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Marc J. Driftmeyer"<mjd at reanimality.com>  writes:
>
>> I don't know if it's a timeout issue or what [I'm more well-versed in
>> WindowServer of OS X and Openstep] but this latest fix from Nvidia is
>> nothing but a bag of hurt.
>> Several comments are building already on nvnews.net's Linux Forum.
> That would indeed be the appropriate place to discuss it.  There's
> literally nothing that we as NVIDIA package maintainers can do, since this
> is a closed-source driver handed to us as a compiled binary from NVIDIA.
> They're the only ones who can fix it; there really isn't anything we can
> do from a packaging perspective.
>
> That's not to say that your bug filing is a bad idea.  It's good to have
> it recorded in the BTS so that other people know it's still a problem when
> they see the same thing.  But unfortunately we're pretty much in a waiting
> game for NVIDIA to figure out what the problem is and release updated
> drivers.
>

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Marc J. Driftmeyer
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