Anybody ever try Lightbox on a Linux box? Is it slow for you?

[darryl]

Weirdest thing:

Lightbox view is one of my favoritest things about SmugMug. Heck, I like it so much I hacked together my own view of Phanfare to do that same thing:

Fanphan Gallery of an Ozomatli Show (http://www.darryl.com/fanphan/showthumbs.php5?album_id=379023&album_name=Summer+Haze&album_date=8%2F11%2F2007&album_descr=Ozomatli%2C+G.+Love+and+Special+Sauce%2C+Slightly+Stoopid+at+Berkeley%27s+Greek+Theatre&session_id=ERnK4Gn5SyrCEpMaOBRd&name=darryl&sections=a%3A1%3A%7Bi%3A519550%3Ba%3A2%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A8%3A%22Ozomatli%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A33%3B%7D%7D&sections=a%3A2%3A%7Bi%3A519550%3Ba%3A2%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A8%3A%22Ozomatli%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A33%3B%7Di%3A519629%3Ba%3A2%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A25%3A%22G.%2BLove%2Band%2BSpecial%2BSauce%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A36%3B%7D%7D&sections=a%3A3%3A%7Bi%3A519550%3Ba%3A2%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A8%3A%22Ozomatli%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A33%3B%7Di%3A519629%3Ba%3A2%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A25%3A%22G.%2BLove%2Band%2BSpecial%2BSauce%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A36%3B%7Di%3A519633%3Ba%3A2%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A16%3A%22Slightly%2BStoopid%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A23%3B%7D%7D&this_section=519550)

But here's what's weird. On an Ubuntu 7.04 Linux machine, w/ Firefox 2.0.0.6, every site that uses Lightbox (or Litebox or the Triptracker.net slideshow widget) slows the machine down to a crawl. The Xorg process starts going nuts with CPU usage, and until I close the floating transparency thing, the box is basically unusable.

Has anybody else ever seen this kind of thing on a Linux box? w/ Mozilla? Clearly it has something to do with the transparency/opacity stuff that YUI, script.a.licious, etc use. But I couldn't find anything about it w/ Google.

Thanks!

--Darryl

[darryl]

I should've thought to try this before, but yeah, happens with Opera too. Must be something funky with the X server.

--Darryl

[bigwebguy]

I should've thought to try this before, but yeah, happens with Opera too. Must be something funky with the X server.

--Darrylhm, interesting. I'll fire up Ubuntu and take a look.

[darryl]

Turns out it was a driver issue. I was running X, but without the accelerated nVidia drivers for OpenGL. It was a pain the butt getting them installed, and whenever I do an upgrade something always messes them up again. But yeah, that was the issue.