libcairo2: Slow tab switching in chromium w/ nvidia

[Przemysław Pawełczyk]

Final follow-up for my bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/682308
A bit late one. Sorry for that.

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a follow-up. According to the comment of Pierre-Loup A. Griffais at
>
> cairo: [nvidia-302] Slow chromium tab switching with cairo-1.12.0
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/49534
>
> the issue should be resolved with the driver 304.30. Copy-pasting
> relevant part of debian changelog:
>
>   - Fixed a problem where RENDER Glyphs operations would exhibit severe
>     performance issues in certain cases, such as when used with gradients
>     by Cairo and Chromium.
>
> It's not yet in unstable, but when it'll get there, I'll try to check
> this and confirm. Jindrich Makovicka already confirmed at the
> mentioned bugtracker that new driver fixes the problem.

Jesse Davis already confirmed that 304.37 worked fine for him.

I have:
1. installed libcairo2 1.12.2-2 from wheezy
   (was using custom build with a workaround before),
2. rechecked that my Chrome browsing experience is in no way bearable,
3. installed nvidia-* stuff in version 304.48-1 from sid,
4. noticed that browser is responsive again!

So it just works. No need to build your own libcairo2 and pin it anymore.

> The issue affects a lot of people, thus I think that the best solution
> would be the new nvidia driver hitting wheezy before it'll be released
> as a stable.

I believe that Wheezy will have nvidia stuff in 304.x version.

Regards.

P.S. Just in case, I'm CCing all participants of this bug discussion.

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