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 1PGZlY-0004Yh-D8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:12:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7F48E076C; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B62E0770 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb1 with SMTP id 1so50789gwb.40 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:11:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8ZeAJGZRCldeXifhzrHEN9suYhdV2YsuFQ+WoRgZWCQ=; b=TGCM2m0QZnUWTUgDCPTYXY1BUQutWO0I1XyUQ4QOkU3JmKqQ00K68DEx53B7W9Shdx svdYpa0MbiBlp/M2XMQSzhcbi48U2WWQ1IaERWr5T8Z0vZHEfI9SR7vPxtYhD1XDUj+9 S/sOgjs6vKW6aDNVT2AYh35WnP/pb5IyEQDiQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=iRH9Q+OEQkA4pE63ED3jSVvcQb61iL2JBMH9ukbR9qhclg8twpDckkshgWA/nIHIKy DBtcs5vP5UASnDZjGk1z/SuS89wn8yRlYg7sIXfb598fCIvBNVje1n9cfpymUF+NYmDk x1sn3gvVI0H9KFvXf4RnQkZTmGX9WLaP8lhXM= Received: by 10.151.8.16 with SMTP id l16mr2022722ybi.143.1289491882835; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:11:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-66-245.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.66.245]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r18sm134856yba.3.2010.11.11.08.11.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:11:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CDC15A6.8010104@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:11:18 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101109 Gentoo/2.0.10 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB References: <4CBD4C85.2010500@gmail.com> <4CDB4E32.5030807@gmail.com> <201011111939.43104.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> <201011111613.56623.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201011111613.56623.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6147051e-c815-4bfc-b367-a34897c962b2 X-Archives-Hash: 776c4a537d8c58e26a4dad705b27c79d 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 :-) :-)