Hello all, been a while since I rang your doorbell, greetings from West Virginia;
I am in the process of converting an old lathe to cnc, and using a pi 3b as the driver. Doing some work on the configuration today, I got curious to see if the features I was adding to the configuration were pushing the poor pi to the point of exhaustion. Firing up htop, the various bits and pieces that together make up linuxcnc, were a total of about 4 or 5% of the cpu load. Compton, the x compositor, was burning something in the region of 165%, or a little over 1.5 of its 4 cores. It was also a few megabytes into swap, so I rebooted it, after which compton was only using perhaps 35% of one core. But my main reason for posting is to see if any progress is being made on opengl and drm drivers for that bcm video the pi has. The display is just slow enough to be noticeable. The machine its driving can move at up to about 100 inches a minute, with bone breaking force, so it would be a definite safety advantage if the video could keep up with the machine in something resembling real time. So what, if any, is the status of faster video drivers for the pi's that use the bcm video? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
