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From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:56:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511172256.12857.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437CBD1D.7070807@gmail.com>

Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
> Something interesting did happen though. I had that "Unknown
> device" in my lspci output for both Gentoo and FC4 when I was on
> VIA Unichrome. Now after switching to nvidia, I can see a Host
> Bridge properly identified in its place. I wonder why that would
> be?

Flaky hardware?  Timings too fast in the BIOS?

> I apologise to those who wasted their time reading this thread
> and replying in it.. but I found the problem worth investigating
> and I am still intrigued by it..

Kernel misconfigured?  When the vesa driver doesn't give acceptable 
performance, there is something wrong.  You might want to actually 
answer the questions I asked earlier.

Benno
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-17 17:25 [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox Mrugesh Karnik
2005-11-17 18:56 ` abhay
2005-11-17 21:56 ` Benno Schulenberg [this message]
2005-11-18 10:45   ` Mrugesh Karnik
2005-11-18 21:52     ` Benno Schulenberg
2005-11-19  8:48       ` Mrugesh Karnik
2005-11-19  8:56       ` Mrugesh Karnik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-10 21:11 Mrugesh Karnik
2005-11-10 21:35 ` Richard Fish
2005-11-11  6:03   ` Mrugesh Karnik
2005-11-11  6:39     ` Richard Fish
2005-11-11  7:55       ` Mrugesh Karnik
2005-11-11 18:20         ` Richard Fish
2005-11-12  8:34           ` Mrugesh Karnik
2005-11-12 14:01             ` Holly Bostick
2005-11-12 14:24               ` Mrugesh Karnik
2005-11-12 21:10             ` Richard Fish
2005-11-13  0:13               ` Mrugesh Karnik
2005-11-13 18:44             ` Benno Schulenberg
2005-11-14  8:54               ` Mrugesh Karnik
2005-11-14 20:59                 ` Benno Schulenberg

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