xserver-xorg-video-radeon 6.14.4: X has constant 10 % CPU usage

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mit, 2012-09-12 at 15:29 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2012, 15:24 +0200 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> > On Die, 2012-09-11 at 15:07 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: 
> > > Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2012, 14:55 +0200 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> > > > On Die, 2012-09-11 at 14:42 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: 
> > > > > 
> > > > > using Debian Sid/unstable with the awesome 3.4.13-1 window manager and
> > > > > Evolution 3.4.3-1, htop shows X to constantly use 10 % of the CPU.
> > > > > Closing Evolution the usage goes back to more or less 0 %.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not seeing this. Is there something in your Evolution window(s) that
> > > > is constantly repainting, e.g. a spinner in the status bar, a blinking
> > > > cursor, ... ?
> > > 
> > > Now that you are mentioning it, in the bottom there is the message
> > > »Checking for New Messages« and next to it there is an animation where
> > > something goes around a circle. Canceling that removes X’s CPU usage.
> > 
> > That's a GTK+ spinner widget, which uses RENDER trapezoids, which is a
> > software rendering fallback with EXA.
> 
> Could that be changed to not us some fallback?

Anything could be done ;), but it would require a lot of work to EXA and
the drivers, which is unlikely to happen at this point. 


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