Slowness in compositor

[John Coppens]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:33:57 +0100
Andreas Ronnquist <andreas.ronnquist at meritkonsult.se> wrote:

> > I had google look around in the xfce.org site, and found no solution.
> > (A similar problem with mplayer was reported, but never answered).
> > 
> > Any suggestion would be appreciated. Is it possible to disable
> > compositor just while viewing video in fullscreen?
> 
> I think this is more of an Nvidia problem than an Xfce one. I tried the
> latest Nvidia (180 and later), and found it to be slow too (when
> playing movies at least), and went back to Nvidia's driver 177.82, and
> speed was back, so I doubt this a Xfce problem. (8600gts graphics card,
> Debian Lenny)

I really hadn't time to check, but I now see I have 177.80 installed. So
that shouldn't be the problem either then. Even so, I'll install .82 to
be sure.

John