On 5/20/09, Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:10 -0700, Chris H wrote: >> > So, zapping is off by default now in 1.6.x. If you want it, add >> Option >> > "DontZap" "off". The cross hatch is also gone, that is what the >> -retro >> > option is supposed to do. The session leader in a failsafe twm >> session >> > is the left hand xterm. Typing exit in that window should exit the >> > session. >> >> DOH! Sorry. My bad. I have since determined that turning off hald && >> dbus >> improve performance. I built the X server with the hald option picked. >> But, when I bounced the box, and started an X session (with a WM), >> performance was improved. BUT. Performance pretty much sucks. I have 4 >> of these boards running with the onbord (mach64) video, and the mere >> 2Mb >> built in RAM. They run with better performance than does this one with >> (200Mhz less CPU) comparable RAM && this one has 64Mb onboard && a >> faster >> Gpu. But they also run 6.4-STABLE && xorg-6.9. >> So, I'm going to experiment by rebuilding the X server w/o the HAL >> driver - make option && untick HAL. Then portupgrade -fi xorg-server. >> >> I'll report back should there be any improvement. > > So, the use of hal or not shouldn't produce any performance difference. > It is only used to detect input devices kbd/mouse. > > One thing that I have discovered and I'm hoping for someone to send me a > patch, is that if you build xorg-server without hal support it doesn't > get linked to pthread libraries. This causes issues with libdrm on > Intel at least. Not sure what else may be impacted.
I ignored this info first time, but I will ask now. Does this implies that libthr is listed in Xorg ldd(1) output? I use server build without hal support on 945GM(irq not MSI) and I do not experience problems with drm/dri/OpenGL/xv or whatever other protocol you name it. > There is also my nouveau patch that you could try. That should get you > EXA and Xv acceleration with the nouveau driver. Overall the reports > that I've been getting have been good. > > robert. > >> Thank you very much Robert, for all your time and efforts. > -- > Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> > FreeBSD > -- Paul _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
