Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 14:39 on Thursday 11 November 2010, Robin
> Atwood did opine thusly:
>
>    
>> On Thursday 11 November 2010, Dale wrote:
>>      
>>> I just checked again, it is still working.  I'm liking that I can watch
>>> a video whenever I want instead of when it decides to work.  ;-)
>>>        
>> I also have good news to report. I upgraded to Qt 4.7.0 and my xserver is a
>> reformed character! It sits and chugs away at 1.0% CPU like it used to with
>> Qt/KDE 3.5. No other graphics related packages were updated at the same
>> time, so it's definitely Qt which made the difference.
>>      
>
> So I wasn't imagining things :-)
>
> I noticed the same and it seems even a bit better with the very latest
> qt-4.7.1. Some time ago I read a blog post about KDE and plasma, where stuff
> will be rewritten for kde-4.6. I can't find it now, it might have been on
> kde.org, slashdot or even the gentoo planet but it was by that Aaron fellow.
> He also said that there were speedups possible in Qt as well.
>
> Seems like we are now getting some of that benefit.
>
>    

Well, I'm on qt-4.7 so I guess I got that already.  I have noticed that 
KDE is getting a little faster tho.  I guess they are tightening up the 
code a bit.

I did a test just then and my video was slow again.  This is what I get 
now.

root@smoker / # glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
677 frames in 5.6 seconds = 120.183 FPS
1 frames in 7.6 seconds =  0.132 FPS
1 frames in 7.6 seconds =  0.132 FPS
1 frames in 8.2 seconds =  0.122 FPS
1 frames in 7.6 seconds =  0.131 FPS
1 frames in 7.6 seconds =  0.132 FPS
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server 
":0.0"
       after 46 requests (46 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
root@smoker / #


So, looks like emerge -e world didn't help after all.  So what should I 
check now?  Do I need to get my hammer out?

Dale

:-)  :-)