F12: 30 second freeze when accessing certain panel items ?

[Rex Dieter]

Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> On 12/14/2009 05:22 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Linuxguy123 wrote:
>>> My computer is freezing for ~30 seconds when I access various items in a
>>> panel like the Weather Forecast and Calendar widgets.
>>>
>>> Is anyone else experiencing this ?
>> Are you using the evil proprietary nvidia driver?
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=533620
>> This has been reported a bazillion times, it helps to read the mailing list
>> archives and/or the F12 Common Bugs page!
> 
> 
> Isn't this an xorg bug that affects nouveau driver and ATI as well?

To be clear, it's an xorg performance issue that affects any non-KMS 
driver (ie, nvidia, and anyone using nomodeset).

-- Rex