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( [210.211.146.81]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 26sm717515wrl.2005.11.19.00.48.33; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:48:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <437EE6DE.4040009@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:18:30 +0530 From: Mrugesh Karnik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox References: <437CBD1D.7070807@gmail.com> <200511172256.12857.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <437DB0CB.1090407@gmail.com> <200511182252.18116.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200511182252.18116.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e4c9099d-6294-4b81-a71f-cc47a82d6287 X-Archives-Hash: dfa5f268bef0b97e6395e61a64718ed0 Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Well, somewhere deep in the BIOS peripheral settings, there are > things like "Enable AGP Fast Write" or similar. Set all those > things to Off or Disabled. You wil want stability first, speed > maybe later. It probably won't make a difference, but it at least > excludes one possible source of problems. Yeah, those were all disabled when I was running Unichrome. I've turned them all on for NVIDIA though. No stability problems. > You've said you have an MSI K8M800 motherboard. Looking at > http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_list.asp?class=mb&cpu=3, such > boards only support "Sempron 2600+, 2800+, 3000+, 3100+, 3300+", > not a 2500+. This may not be a problem, but then again, it might > not be listed for a reason. Hmmmm. Well I checked the motherboard manual when I bought this computer and it says "Supports AMD K8 64 bit processors (Socket 754). > No "sse" USE flag? You could try adding it and re-emerging Xorg. Well, 3dnow, mmx and sse are all masked in the amd64 profile anyway... > To confirm your exact CPU, 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'. It is an AMD Sempron 2500+ > An 'lsmod' on this system under Gentoo. Module Size Used by w83627hf 34984 0 eeprom 8784 0 i2c_sensor 3840 2 w83627hf,eeprom i2c_isa 2816 0 snd_seq_oss 36608 0 snd_seq_midi_event 8320 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 56896 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss 55712 0 snd_mixer_oss 18880 1 snd_pcm_oss ohci_hcd 21316 0 snd_via82xx 29312 4 snd_ac97_codec 91352 1 snd_via82xx snd_pcm 97420 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 25544 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart 8320 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi 28448 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 10064 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd 60200 16 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device i2c_viapro 9300 0 i2c_core 23704 5 w83627hf,eeprom,i2c_sensor,i2c_isa,i2c_viapro ehci_hcd 31944 0 uhci_hcd 33568 0 8139too 28800 0 nvidia 4055676 12 This is the current one. Back with Unichrome, I had via and drm loaded in place of nvidia. Nothing fancy in there I guess. > An 'emerge -pv xorg-x11'. [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 (-3dfx) (-3dnow) +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal (-mmx) +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk (-sse) -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB > A 'cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf'. This is errr one of the xorg.conf files used of Unichrome. The other one had dri disabled, that's all... Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/lib64/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "xtrap" Load "dbe" Load "glx" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "record" Load "type1" Load "freetype" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" # Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "LG Electronics" ModelName "StudioWorks 700i" HorizSync 30 - 70 VertRefresh 50 - 160 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "ShadowFB" # [] #Option "VGAClocks" # [] #Option "KGAUniversal" # [] Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "via" VendorName "VIA Technologies, Inc." BoardName "S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01)" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Option "ForcePCIMode" "True" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection > And 'grep "^(--\|^(WW\|^(EE" /var/log/Xorg.0.log'. Well, I can't get you those results for Unichrome on this Gentoo machine. It's all NVIDIA in there now, even in the FC4 logs... > Benno Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list