Scrolling Speed Bad

[Karl Pearson]

On Tue, August 21, 2007 11:03 am, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 22:36 -0600, Karl Pearson wrote:
>> Is there something I can do to speed up the scrolling of windows.
>> Specifically, when I'm running a script in xterm, the scrolling is very
>> slow.
>> It's even slower in Firefox. If I use the mouse wheel to scroll, it's very
>> annoying to the point that the mouse pointer is lost and I have no control
>> until the scrolling stops. In xterm, it's just as bad, but I've not tested
>> the
>> mouse wheel scrolling. If I click on the border thing (hey, I've lost my
>> mind
>> and can't remember what it's called) it scrolls fast as a jump.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> This sounds like an X rendering issue.  Which X driver are you using?

This is a cheap laptop with a UniChrome Pro IGP chipset and the OpenChrome
driver doesn't address it because it's too new and the OpenChrome project
hasn't done anything for a while. I've assigned the vesa driver and it's
what's slow. I'm not sure what other driver I could try.

Karl

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