Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

[Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com>]

Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > Which ones precisely?  See the output of 'lsmod'.
> > Do an 'lsmod' on your FC4 too and compare.
>
> That'd be drm and via

Could you post the output of 'lsmod' on your FC4?

> 00:00.0 Host Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown Device 0204

Hmm, interesting.  What motherboard is this?

> And this is my graphics card:

It's not a card; the chip is integrated on the motherboard.  Or 
isn't it?

> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technology, Inc. S3
> Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01)

Okay, that's a 800 chip.  You need the amd64_agp module, not the 
via_agp one.  To see what you've configured, please post the output 
of 'egrep "AGP|DRM|VIA" /usr/src/linux/.config'.

> > Is the via driver present on your FC4?  And if so, have you
> > tried using it there?  Maybe it simply doesn't work, by being
> > unable to handle 64 bits?
>
> Which drivers exactly?

Hrm... read back in the thread: /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o.
(Or with an X11/ in the path.)  It's the Xorg 2D via driver.

> As it is, I'm having problems with 2D 
> performance and am not really concerned about 3D performance. The
> drm and via modules loaded above are 3D related...

You don't want the via driver for now, use the vesa one.  But you 
were complaining that Gentoo didn't have the Xorg via driver 
installed, that's why I asked if FC4 did.  I guess not, as probably 
it doesn't work for 64 bits, which is why FC4 uses the vesa driver.

To help a bit more: post the output of 'emerge --info'.

Benno
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