lyx

[Rex Dieter]

Richard Heck wrote:
> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>
>>> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>>
>>>> Whith FC10, came lyx 1.6 which requires tremendous more CPU than the
>>>> version 1.5 (of FC7). Is it normal ?
>>>
>>> No, not normal, in general.  But without knowing more details, it's 
>>> hard to say more.  Mind filing a bug @ bugzilla.redhat.com.?
>> I do not which details you requires.
>> Even moving the mouse inside a lyx document consumes a lot of CPU, with
>> top, it appears as X.
>> Could it be due to the X server ?
>> How can I check if the right sever is installed ?
>> As a fact, since I update from FC7, to FC10, I observed that all the X
>> session are slower !
>>
> We (at LyX) have seen some other reports of problems like this. Often, 
> they have amounted to issues involving the X server configuration. So 
> you might check the lyx-user and lyx-devel archives.

In this case, the reporter was using radeon driver, so I asked him to 
file a bug @ bugzilla.redhat.com (against lyx initially), to document 
it, if nothing else (haven't received anything in bugzilla to date tho).

-- Rex