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Bug 112486 - Logout effect hideously slow
Logout effect hideously slow
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 140717
Product: gnome-session
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.3.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Session Maintainers
Session Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-05-07 13:14 UTC by Kevin Vandersloot
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4



Description Kevin Vandersloot 2003-05-07 13:14:12 UTC
So I'm running on a Celeron 414 MHz machine with a Permedia2 8MB video card
with RedHat 8.0 X setup and the logout effect is way too slow. First the
dialog shows up, and then I can see each frame in the animation, one by
one. I'll try to see if it is some problem with my video card setup, but I
just let RedHat configure it so this could happen to many other setups.
Comment 1 Alex Duggan 2003-05-08 03:51:06 UTC
I see the same thing using an athlon 1.2G with a 32MB tnt2 video card
Comment 2 Murray Cumming 2003-07-08 17:05:02 UTC
Can you tell us approximately how many seconds/minutes it takes? "too
slow" is not very informative.
Comment 3 Kevin Vandersloot 2003-07-08 18:16:54 UTC
No I don't have timings, but I stated what I see. I can see each frame
individually change, instead of a smooth effect. It's really ass ugly.
Anyways, the old logout effect looked just fine, and RH has a nice
fade out effect for the screensaver that works fine on my setup.
Comment 4 Markus Bertheau 2003-09-24 21:04:14 UTC
I see about 6 to seven frames in ~2 seconds. Also my mouse moves at 3
fps which makes it really hard to select the "halt" option. I always
have to wait until the effect has finished. I consider this a bug :)

(My PC runs with a Nvidia Riva TNT with the Nvidia drivers).
Comment 5 Kevin Vandersloot 2003-09-25 14:02:03 UTC
Perusing through the new Fedora list I notice the following thread
which indicates that lots of people are seeing this.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2003-September/msg01243.html
Comment 6 Pedro Corte-Real 2003-10-20 22:39:19 UTC
I tried to troubleshoot this in #gnome-help and it was suggested that
it was because my bit depth was too low (16 bit). I changed it to 24
bit and it had no effect. 

My video card isn't very fast, it's an Intel 855GM (Centrino Laptop).
Comment 7 Andrew Mashchak 2004-02-05 16:34:48 UTC
This is a particulary odious "feature" for remote sessions, regardless
of hardware issues. A GConf entry for turning this off would be
greately appreciated and presumably quite simple to implement for
those skilled in the arcane arts of GConf.
Comment 8 Richard Hoelscher 2004-02-06 16:49:13 UTC
Fresh install of everything over here, topped off with GNOME 2.5.3 
from source on my laptop (ATI rage128-class, 1600x1200), and the log-
out is probably the slowest thing on this machine. It takes a around 
three seconds to do all of the drawing needed, which is bad compared 
to about 6 seconds to boot X and GNOME. Note that DRI works fine and 
OpenGL screensavers have no problem on this machine.

The main problem isn't even the effect, as much as the noticeable 
slowdown and drawing problems.... sometimes only certain areas of the 
screen get painted before it skips to the next shade of gray, and the 
slowdown keeps me from doing a quick click on the confirmation 
dialog. Only reason I haven't noticed this before was because my old 
install (Gentoo, GNOME 2.5 ebuilds) patched-out the logout dialog and 
used GDM for shutdowns.
Comment 9 Mark McLoughlin 2004-06-21 07:48:42 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140717 ***