Is this Mint's fault?

Deadly Ferret

Deadly Ferret

Deadly Ferret

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I've just rebuilt my machine and installed Mint. I have a Phenom 9650 quad-core, a high-end mainboard, 4GB memory, and a cheap but current graphics card, so I was shocked just now when Rhythmbox paused/stuttered as I vertically scrolled a forum page in Opera! (The machine was doing nothing apart from these two apps.)

Who do you reckon is to blame: Mint, my hardware, Rhythmbox or Opera? :D
 
For some reason my Rhythmbox has issues when I run Opera. Try running Firefox and doing the same thing and see if it stutters then...
 
What card so you use and do you have the current [proprietary] drivers installed?

I have an 8800GTS and have had similar issues with various nvidia drivers. Currently the latest beta drivers - 180.x - are good in 2D, but **** in 3D, whereas the 169.x were the other way round - thus I had to use a compositing WM to get decent "2D" performance!! (The 177.67 are a decent blend of both).
 
I get terrible stuttering when scrolling in Firefox. I installed Exaile which improved it a bit but even my AmigaONE could do multiple things without the music glitching and that includes streaming it on shoutcast at the same time.
 
Stuttering while scrolling is an extremely common symptom of bad graphics drivers. If you're using the free drivers try the proprietary ones. If you're using those, what kind of card do you have?
 
try pasting this into a shell:
Code: 
nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1
If it helps, you'll have to run it every time you start X.

EDIT: also - what version of the 177?
 
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Outcast said:
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Any joy with that string? If not, try using a compositing WM (like compiz) as well.

The drivers that you're using are a slightly newer version than mine (I think mine are the previous latest beta drivers).

Also o/t - how did you add your distro to your information bar?
 
I tried that string but ... not a lot happened .. to the sound anyway !!

To add distro to your profile.. edit your location.... Mine is Peterboro, Distro:Ubuntu

<----- look here Firebar...It words wraps it just lovely !!

hehe
 
Outcast said:
I tried that string but ... not a lot happened .. to the sound anyway !!
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Hmm. ok - have you tried other versions of the drivers? I assume tht you're using the nvidia drivers from the ubuntu repositories? what happens if you try some of the other versions from the nvidia website and you compile yourself?

Also - are there any errors showing in Xorg.log or gdm.log (I assume that GDM has a log similar to KDM)?

Outcast said:
To add distro to your profile.. edit your location.... Mine is Peterboro, Distro:Ubuntu

<----- look here Firebar...It words wraps it just lovely !!

hehe
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Nice :)
 
Couldn't really see anything amiss in Xorg.Log but User.log has some interesting error messages....

Jan 5 02:13:51 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7328]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Jan 5 02:13:51 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7330]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Jan 5 02:13:51 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7330]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
Jan 5 02:13:51 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7330]: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
Jan 5 02:13:51 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7330]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback mixer control "PCM".
Jan 5 02:14:18 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7330]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager not running.
Jan 5 02:14:18 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7330]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Jan 5 02:15:23 susans-desktop python: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
Jan 5 02:15:25 susans-desktop hp: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
Jan 5 02:34:38 susans-desktop bonobo-activation-server (susan-8308): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-Yj1qBZhFd2: Connection refused
Jan 5 02:34:43 susans-desktop bonobo-activation-server (susan-8495): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-Yj1qBZhFd2: Connection refused
Jan 5 09:26:53 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7414]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Jan 5 09:26:53 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7416]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Jan 5 09:26:53 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7416]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
Jan 5 09:26:53 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7416]: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
Jan 5 09:26:53 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7416]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback mixer control "PCM".
Jan 5 09:27:20 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7416]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager not running.
Jan 5 09:27:20 susans-desktop pulseaudio[7416]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Jan 5 09:28:28 susans-desktop python: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
Jan 5 09:28:29 susans-desktop hp: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
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Changed Code tag to quote to make reading easier
 
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