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

[Mrugesh Karnik <mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com>]

Benno Schulenberg wrote:

> Flaky hardware?  Timings too fast in the BIOS?

What timings? :S

> 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.

I couldn't answer the questions back then due to a number of factors. 
Anyway, I still can't post the output of lsmod from my FC4 system, as I 
won't be able to boot into it for another couple of days atleast.

Here's something you asked for:

CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
# CONFIG_AGP_INTEL is not set

CONFIG_DRM=m
# CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_RADEON is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set
CONFIG_DRM_VIA=m

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y
CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=y
CONFIG_VIA_RHINE_MMIO=y
CONFIG_VIA_VELOCITY=y
CONFIG_DRM_VIA=m
CONFIG_I2C_VIA=m
CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO=m
CONFIG_SENSORS_VIA686A=m


Here's emerge --info:

Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, 
glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env 
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config 
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks nostrip sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi 
bash-completion bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cdparanoia 
cdr crypt curl dbug dbus dio directfb dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss 
emul-linux-x86 encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb 
fortran ftp gd gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal idn imap imlib ipv6 jabber 
jack jack-tmpfs javascript jpeg kde kerberos krb4 lcms ldap libwww 
lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mailwrapper mbox mhash mime mng mp3 
mpeg msn musepack mysql ncurses nis nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg 
opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php png portaudio posix python qt quicktime 
readline real samba sdl sndfile snmp spell ssl svg sysvipc tcpd tiff 
till timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unichrome unicode 
usb userlocales vcd verbose vorbis xine xml xml2 xpm xsl xslt xv xvid 
yahoo zlib video_cards_via linguas_en_GB userland_GNU kernel_linux 
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS

Anything else you'd like to know?

Mrugesh
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