Bug#553681: mutter: The screen is refreshed every 5 seconds: it is unusable.

[Gustavo Noronha Silva]

Hey,

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 21:17 +0000, Antoine Sirinelli wrote:
> Since I have installed it, mutter has never been usable. When I run it, my
> whole screen is refreshed only every ~5 seconds. I can move windows, resize
> them, interact with them, but I can only see the effects of my actions few
> seconds later. The mouse cursor is the only thing which is refreshed normally.
> Even animated icons as the Network-Manager ones are only refreshed every ~5
> seconds.

That's a known issue in the interaction of clutter with the intel
driver. You can fix it by either enabling KMS, or by running mutter with
the CLUTTER_VBLANK environment variable set to 1. Unfortunately it
doesn't look like upstream will be able to fix this, and is telling us
to simply wait on the intel graphics mess to end.

See:

	http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1730

Thanks,	

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Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org>
Debian