On 5/20/09, Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 16:16 +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote: >> 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. > > Yes, if xserver is built with HAL support, I see it linked with libthr. > If HAL is disabled, it doesn't appear to be. I'm trying to remember > exactly what the reported issue was, but I think it was X crashing on > exit.
Looking at xorg-server source I did not see anything that points it must link to libthr, perhaps HAL support makes libthr linking mandatory. X doesnt crash on exit for me, well it did before (maybe because drm outputs ressurected *pipe disabled* message on console all the time). Should this finnaly be replaced with DRM_DEBUG ? -- 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"
