Compiz fusion - scrolling in firefox - window resizing

[NewB]

Hello,

I'm new to the xgl/aiglx and compiz world. I installed compiz-fusion and I'm pretty happy with it except for 3 different things:

-Scrolling in Firefox is slow and laggy
-resizing windows is slow and laggy
-switching to full screen in mplayer with F does not work (video goes full screen and directly goes back to the original size). This one is not that important since when I go to full screen using the menu it works.

So any ideas how to solve these problems? I have a ati video card and using the open source drivers (radeon) with aiglx. I'm using xorg-server 1.3 (update to 1.4 gave me problems with my mouse: a single click behaves as a double click!?).

Looking around on the forums I saw that other people had the same problem with Firefox. But unfortunately I didn't find any solution...

Thanks for your help.

[EnderWiggin]

NewB,

I assume that you are using the fglrx (ATI binary) driver as these symptoms are widespread with the latest driver. Is that correct?

[NewB]

No, no i'm using the open source driver, no fglrx. My card is not supported anymore by the fglrx drivers (it's a radeon 9000 Mobility FireGL).

[EnderWiggin]

Unfortunately I don't have a card compatible with the opensource card so I have little experience with it.

The forums on phoronix.com are also very helpful with ATI driver issues (binary, opensource, etc.) so you might want to cross-post there. If you get an answer, be sure to submit it back to this thread as well. =)

[charlie]

For help with scrolling performance:

Using the kmenu/Settings/CompizConfig Settings Manager click General Options then Display Settings tab then move the Refresh Rate Slider to 200 then uncheck the Sync to VBlank box.

If you don't use KDE then type ccsm at a console which would bring up the CompizConfig Settings Manager.

Also you may wish to use the buggy Compiz Fusion from the git archive (http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/Installation).

You may also wish to disable smooth scrolling in Firefox.

Compiz Fusion needs to be optimized still. It's still not has fast as it should be.

[NewB]

[charlie]

Depending on the Radeon driver starting compiz with --indirect-rendering or --loose-binding may help. To check out your frames per second with those options enable the Benchmark plugin in ccsm and bind a key whereby to start it.

[imanel]

First thing - it's not fault of version of Xorg that it uses single-click as double-click - it's desktop manager's option(see mouse options) and can be simply disabled...

Second thing - some time ago I have the some problem, but using beryl and compiz separately(both had the some problem) Then I just set to "show only border" as resize graphic. In Firefox(or some other aplications) you should disable "smooth scrolling" as someone alredy said - thats because compiz/beryl try to render frame-by-frame including special effects, and there's a lot of frames;)

About mplayer - I never had that problem... This might be connected with ATI drivers...