On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:19:13PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > for the same laptop for which I just posted a full dmesg about the > battery problem, which reports this video card: > > vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS" rev 0xa1 > > I get a super-slow X11. Dragging an xterm may take half a second, up to > the point where X11 looses track of the mouse move events. Scrolling > XTerm is unusably slwo too. > > Using a larger editor like Emacs or Firefox... even worse. It looks > totally unacelercated. > > Should the 8400 work? IN the Xorg log I see this: > [ 5902.005] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa > [ 5902.005] (--) NV: Found NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS at 01@00:00:0 > [ 5902.005] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa > [ 5902.006] (II) Loading sub module "int10" > [ 5902.006] (II) LoadModule: "int10" > [ 5902.007] (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.so > [ 5902.017] (II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > [ 5902.017] compiled for 1.16.4, module version = 1.0.0 > [ 5902.017] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 18.0 > [ 5902.017] (II) NV(0): Initializing int10 > [ 5902.017] (II) NV(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 > [ 5902.018] (--) NV(0): Console is VGA mode 0x3 > [ 5902.018] (II) NV(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen > section > "Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32 > [ 5902.018] (==) NV(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > > so the "nv" driver loaded.. but then further below: > [ 5902.185] (**) NV(0): Driver mode "1280x800": 71.0 MHz (scaled from > 0.0 MHz), 49.3 kHz, 59.9 Hz > [ 5902.185] (II) NV(0): Modeline "1280x800"x59.9 71.00 1280 1328 > 1360 1440 800 803 809 823 -hsync -vsync (49.3 kHz eP) > [ 5902.185] (==) NV(0): DPI set to (96, 96) > [ 5902.185] (II) Loading sub module "fb" > [ 5902.185] (II) LoadModule: "fb" > [ 5902.185] (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.so > [ 5902.200] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > [ 5902.200] compiled for 1.16.4, module version = 1.0.0 > [ 5902.200] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4 > [ 5902.200] (II) Loading sub module "xaa" > [ 5902.200] (II) LoadModule: "xaa" > [ 5902.208] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module xaa > [ 5902.208] (II) UnloadModule: "xaa" > [ 5902.208] (II) Unloading xaa > [ 5902.208] (EE) NV: Failed to load module "xaa" (module does not exist, 0)
Read Matthieu's comment in this thread: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/205381 > [ 5902.208] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac" > [ 5902.208] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac" > [ 5902.208] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in > [ 5902.208] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa" > [ 5902.208] (II) Unloading vesa > [ 5902.208] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp > [ 5902.224] (--) NV(0): 120.69 MB available for offscreen pixmaps > [ 5902.228] (==) NV(0): Backing store enabled > [ 5902.228] (==) NV(0): Silken mouse disabled > [ 5902.230] (II) NV(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR > disabled message. > [ 5902.237] (==) NV(0): DPMS enabled > [ 5905.804] (--) RandR disabled > [ 5905.856] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable > [ 5905.856] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering > [ 5906.010] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast > [ 5906.010] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 > [ 5906.011] (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 338 x 211 > > I suppose the "reverting to software rendering" is the final error and > clue to the problem: no kind of acceleration at all. > > Riccardo > -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
