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[Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone else want to try and help with this? I would really like to see this
get fixed!

Thank you,
Jon
On Jun 6, 2014 11:21 AM, "Jon Neal" <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ian,
>
> I didn't want to try to use that as the solution since that makes
> everything in the OS use software rendering. Was really hoping for a better
> solution than that.
>
> From my reading it looks like kicad is doing a bunch of context switches
> between software rendering and hardware rendering which causes gnome, etc
> to go amazingly slow (i.e. takes 30s to minimize chrome).
>
> Jon
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Ian <ian.ohara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Just to be sure, did you try the solution that helped the last few
>> commenters at that bug report?  The solution they say works is adding
>> 'Option "EXAPixmaps" "False"' to the radeon section of xorg.conf .
>>
>> -Ian
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have been heavily affected by launchpad bug #1003859 (
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1003859) for quite some time. I
>>> can't make schematics on my desktop and am forced to use a much older
>>> laptop I have that really slows me down.
>>>
>>> I would love to try to help fix it, but I don't think I have the skills
>>> or time for this.
>>>
>>> Anyone on here willing to at least look at it and see what can be done
>>> about it? If it would help this bug get fixed faster I would be willing to
>>> put a $50 bounty on it getting fixed (this is probably inadequate, but I
>>> don't have too much spare money as a student, sorry).
>>>
>>> I would love to see this fixed soon!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jon Neal
>>>
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