Audio Skips when Scrolling in Firefox (was: Re: Powerbook RV350 Performance)

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 13:23:30 PDT 2007


> Bah, scrolling in Firefox + Compiz still makes music skip (whereas it
> does not in Metacity), but with the aiglx-zero-copy-tfp patches
> performance is much improved, notably using the 'scale' (like Apple
> Expose) or alt+tab functionality doesn't cause flickering, where it did
> before.
>
> I'm getting there, any suggestions as to what to do about the skipping
> or is this even relevant to X.org...perhaps I should take this problem
> elsewhere (e.g. debian-powerpc)?

You could profile the system while scrolling and tell us what is
taking up all the CPU time..

Dave.



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