From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O52sE-0008Nr-8p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:19:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFBF7E06EE; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3296E06EE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf23 with SMTP id 23so1001134wyf.40 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:19:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Y0BNhHPM03nRyPVq869fqMFKLHuarCvwAEjZbPU5gsI=; b=NSGt339xvf+R0MqBxSCySJfv52oask5YmjDGM70VqNU7H97OBdObZ7QfvJujYNgICg j16eYZ78qF6Oop6/wwPmTT8ISuq9Vw0Dnr6C7pU3rQGK0recXs92h3qz37J1MWxRB+1+ X2e2Npy1Wpid2rI2Iv9FZE4fSt/kbebqeg0hc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=J90iS+oZ65WwZkXQQFSRwD5TIAWeHew3NotAU77Ppy3ISawRTmMUAE8AOPlJpKE3Ji dh1Wkkk0XL82M5AHBzW8d1N2lptd4siHSXlkTHig4WRBX/zke0ld/pBMbsia/XwEIjv5 hvskNehRmpok0/7HwLuUgtCXBZ7qJH7BcaecM= Received: by 10.216.154.139 with SMTP id h11mr459043wek.170.1271967539774; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:18:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x14sm2296326wbs.6.2010.04.22.13.18.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:18:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:18:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.33-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3617073.5V2Z0x6KIh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004222118.58775.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: cf253632-65dd-4b02-8a10-07c788b3d88e X-Archives-Hash: c16f3c896eb1cb3a224002ae3872f9f5 --nextPart3617073.5V2Z0x6KIh Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday 22 April 2010 17:47:23 Grant wrote: > >>> Could this be the problem? > >>> > >>> # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log > >>> (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0) > >>> (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) > >>> (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No such file or > >>> directory > >>> (EE) intel(0): Failed to become DRM master. > >>> (EE) intel(0): Failed to initialize kernel memory manager > >> > >> The first two errors are fine; Xorg defaults to trying vesa and fbdev = as > >> display drivers and you just don't have them. > >> > >> The last three are your problem. The intel video driver is unable to > >> properly access the DRM subsystem, which will definitely cause X to sl= ow > >> to a crawl. > >> > >> The most likely cause of your errors is that the intel AGP driver (i810 > >> or i915, depending on your hardware) isn't getting loaded. If that's > >> the case, you should see an error such as: > >> > >> [drm] failed to load kernel module "i915" > >> > >> in Xorg.0.log just before the ones from intel. If the modules are bei= ng > >> loaded, you'll likely see some other errors around that same area. The > >> aren't tagged with (EE), unfortunately; try: > >> > >> # grep -5 'Failed to open DRM' Xorg.0.log > >> > >> You can also check your dmesg output to see if the devices are being > >> initialized properly: > >> > >> platypus log # dmesg | grep agp > >> Linux agpgart interface v0.103 > >> agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 965GM Chipset > >> agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 7676K stolen memory > >> agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe0000000 > >> > >> platypus log # dmesg | grep drm > >> [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 > >> [drm] set up 7M of stolen space > >> [drm] initialized overlay support > >> fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device > >> [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0 > >> > >> If everything's working, you should have the following devices that the > >> Xorg driver needs: > >> > >> platypus log # ls -l /dev/dri > >> total 0 > >> crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 0 Apr 20 13:11 card0 > >> crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 64 Apr 20 13:11 controlD64 > > > > Ah, thank you so much. I needed to enable CONFIG_DRM_I915 in the kerne= l. > > > > - Grant >=20 > Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the > keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that? No idea other than to suggest that you take a look in=20 /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/* for any files that you could modify= =20 after you copy them to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ - but I wouldn't know how. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3617073.5V2Z0x6KIh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkvQrzIACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZA0wCgrxurqx6V0XnHbK6Oq5pkwyO5 MacAoLIetaUMmoomrvKgKLEBi/YsNCbE =FkVz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3617073.5V2Z0x6KIh--