From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EcrsG-0004l2-KT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:04:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAHM3Mv4017952; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:03:22 GMT Received: from psmtp03.wxs.nl (psmtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.247.12]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAHLueBA015255 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:56:40 GMT Received: from graskamp (ip51cfa1ef.direct-adsl.nl [81.207.161.239]) by psmtp03.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.07 (built Jun 24 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IQ400FSPCYG7G@psmtp03.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:56:40 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:56:12 +0100 From: Benno Schulenberg Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox In-reply-to: <437CBD1D.7070807@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200511172256.12857.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <437CBD1D.7070807@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 08543073-e9a5-4756-b10b-365edb4b9044 X-Archives-Hash: a2e7c79589524653d204877182889705 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list