For example in Gnome terminal when you scroll up a man page or a less output it takes a lot of time (~2-3 sec.) to refresh the page! Ok I sow the bug 15636 talk about it, but it seem that gnome-terminal emphasize an xorg problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a gnome-terminal session 2. Digit "man emerge" 3. Press page down key 4. Press page up key Actual Results: When you press the page down key the refresh is quick/immediate, but every time you press the page up botton it takes a lot of time (ok seconds but it's a lot of time!) to refresh the page. Expected Results: I expect a immediate refresh as when I press the page down button! I "solve" the gnome-terminal problem (and the general problem of slow refresh) using the neomagic_drv.o from XFree86. (as explained in the URL) Hardware: IBM ThinkPad 600X # lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge ... 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2360 [MagicMedia 256ZX] ... # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "usbmouse" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefont/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/unifont/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ukr/" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "glx" Load "type1" Load "freetype" SubSection "extmod" Option "omit xfree86-dga" EndSubSection EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbLayout" "it" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "usbmouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "ZAxis Mapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "neomagic" VendorName "Neomagic Corporation" BoardName "NM2360 [MagicMedia 256ZX]" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" VideoRam 4096 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/ http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups divx4linux doc dvd emacs encode esd f77 fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mozilla mpeg msn ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp ppds python quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype trusted usb x86 xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Please try 6.8.1.901 to see whether it's been fixed.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77118 ***
Now that I'm using OpenOffice or pdf viewer or postscript viewer and so on I sow that the rendering problem persist, specially with OpenOffice Writer and tables, or OpenOffice Spreadsheet. Xorg is very slow to refresh the image on the screen and the applications sometimes is unusable. Searching the net I sow the same bug in RedHat "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139175" that tell "So i think this is not only a Xorg driver issue but also a xft and/or gtk2 issue.". I've installed "xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1" and yes the scroll on xterm is really improved, but only on xterm ...all the other applications remain slow in rendering! Anyone had a "Neomagic Corporation NM2360 [MagicMedia 256ZX]" (I have an IBM TP 600X) with Gnome or KDE installed, how it works?!
Talking on here isn't going to accomplish anything. You need to talk to upstream. File a bug at bugs.freedesktop.org and post the URL here, so we can track it. Make sure there isn't already a bug there for your problem.
sounds a lot like https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1877 which is fixed in 6.8.2.
Comment #3 would indicate otherwise, at least for non-xterm apps.