The driver is very slow with Kicad

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Oct 12 04:11:18 PDT 2011


On Die, 2011-10-11 at 21:20 +0700, Phinitnan Chanasabaeng wrote: 
> 
> I made an PCBNEW file available for you to download
> at http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?e81mjyo4vcq59kn
> Open this file, try to zoom in and out with mouse wheel (simplest way
> to reproduce).
> All 2D operation (zooming, moving component, etc) is very slow on
> xorg-ati driver. Everything is smooth on Catalyst.

Looks like it hits various software rendering paths in the X server. I'm
afraid this won't be fixed anytime soon. 

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