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

[Mrugesh Karnik <mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com>]

Well hi again,

It took longer than I expected to change the server. Anyway.

The VIA Unichrome situation turned out to be a no-go for me. I had to 
install an NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 on the machine and get X running.

I think this whole thread and me compiling various Xorg versions about 8 
or 9 times was a waste of time. Because as it turns out, fluxbox, even 
on the nvidia drivers took ages to open xcalc and such. The only 
difference was that, the mouse pointer moved properly with nvidia 
drivers when fluxbox was trying to open xcalc. With vesa, the pointer 
lagged like hell!

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?

I still am confused about one thing though... which exactly is the 2D 
driver for VIA Unichrome?

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..

Regards and a sincere thanks,
Mrugesh
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