[dr_dred5]

I'm in the process of slowly transferring to Ubuntu Lucid.

XBMC is working great with Video and Audio, but the GUI is really sluggish. The mouse pointer and keyboard commands take about a second before they register.

I'm guessing that it's a video card issue.

I have disabled all visual effects in Lucid, which helped a little, but it is still quite slow.

I'm using an older computer, but it has never given me problems in the past.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has had problems, or if there is anything I can do to fix this.

Here's my boxes specs.

P4 2.4G
512 Mb RAM
ATI Radeon 9200 (128 Mb)
Soundblaster Live 5.1

XBMC was installed from the repo.

Let me know if more info is needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

[sraue]

I'm in the process of slowly transferring to Ubuntu Lucid.

XBMC is working great with Video and Audio, but the GUI is really sluggish. The mouse pointer and keyboard commands take about a second before they register.

I'm guessing that it's a video card issue.

I have disabled all visual effects in Lucid, which helped a little, but it is still quite slow.

I'm using an older computer, but it has never given me problems in the past.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has had problems, or if there is anything I can do to fix this.

Here's my boxes specs.

P4 2.4G
512 Mb RAM
ATI Radeon 9200 (128 Mb)
Soundblaster Live 5.1

XBMC was installed from the repo.

Let me know if more info is needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

its usefull to post your xbmc.log (maybe also /var/log/Xorg*.log) to any pastebin service and provede the links here.

[steve1977]

I'm in the process of slowly transferring to Ubuntu Lucid.

XBMC is working great with Video and Audio, but the GUI is really sluggish. The mouse pointer and keyboard commands take about a second before they register.

Exactly the same with me, just that it is actually even more sluggish with me (more than 1 sec). It basically makes it unusable. XBMC.log below. Thanks for any help!!!

http://www.paste.to/v/shxcytf3

[topfs2]

Need Debug Log. Check wiki how to get it.

Seeing you have radeon I'd guess that its driver related tbh, perhaps lucid moved to an open source driver?

[steve1977]

Need Debug Log. Check wiki how to get it.

Seeing you have radeon I'd guess that its driver related tbh, perhaps lucid moved to an open source driver?

Solved in the meantime. Updated to latest nvidia and now working properly. Thanks.

[dr_dred5]

Thanks for your response!

I should have remembered the logs, sorry.

XBMC.log http://www.paste.to/v/au6tygqi
Xorg log http://www.paste.to/v/fdrqplx2

I am using (and always have used) the open source drivers. The proprietary drivers have never worked with my card. This hasn't been an issue in the past.

Hardware acceleration and 3D rendering seem to be working fine. So far, Xbmc seems to be the only software having issues.

Let me know if you need any additional info.

Thanks in advance!

[dr_dred5]

Bump

[tonyk]

I have the same problem...

XBMC.LOG http://www.paste.to/v/p1phc5kl
Xorg.log http://www.paste.to/v/2gdctdjq

Thanks!

[sraue]

can you add "radeon.modeset=0" (without quotes) to your kernel commandline (in your grub config) and test if it would better?

Note: you maybe lose your bootsplash with this

[theuni]

The problem here is a cximage bug related to jpeg-[7|8] that was fixed soon after camelot. Will try to get a patch into the ppa.

TheUni

[sraue]

regarding some bugreports for fedora and ubuntu (for example: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...bug/531372) the Desktop is very sluggish with Radeon 9200 Cards, this seems fixed with Kernel 2.6.33. So try also disable KMS. Maybe dr_dred5 and tonyk have both problems.

[tonyk]

I try disabling KMS, but the performance is worst... this weekend i hope try kernel 2.6.33

Greets

[dr_dred5]

I have just revisited this issue.

I've tried all of the suggestions, including the new kernel, but it's still slow.

It's a shame that this is happening with an LTS version. I'd really like to start using Lucid.

The problem here is a cximage bug related to jpeg-[7|8] that was fixed soon after camelot. Will try to get a patch into the ppa.

TheUni

Has there been any progress with this? Is there a link to the bug report?

Thanks!

[kaband]

I have the same issue. Its slow (about a 1 sec. reaction time) in 1920 x 1080 using the HDMI out. If i drop it to 1680 x 1050 its normal. I gotta think its video related. Anyway, thats been my experience.

Dred5, did it work better for you in 9.10? No sluggish behavior?

Thx.

[dr_dred5]

I didn't install 9.10, but I can say that it works flawlessly in 9.04.