F12: 30 second freeze when accessing certain panel items ?

[Kevin Kofler]

Linuxguy123 wrote:
> Apparently it's an xorg performance issue that affects any non-KMS
> driver (ie, nvidia, and anyone using nomodeset).

Except all 3 main drivers in Fedora (intel, nouveau, radeon) support KMS and 
use it by default.

> There is NO NEED to label the proprietary nvidia driver as "evil"

The labeling as "evil" is completely unrelated to this issue.

> imply that the problem is somehow caused by nvidia's driver when it is
> actually an xorg issue.

The problem is also partly caused by the NVidia driver still not supporting 
kernel modesetting.

        Kevin Kofler