From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 22 18:45:41 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFC3136C; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:45:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4AB61779; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:45:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amavis-proxy-ori.ijs.si (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3k5qPZ1yprz6J; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:45:38 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ijs.si; h= user-agent:message-id:organization:subject:subject:from:from :date:date:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type :mime-version:received:received:received:received; s=jakla4; t= 1419273935; x=1421865936; bh=A3s1PpUcmm1Q4RZOx/UOIYswnjYkMMGdVOn gtmSNeFM=; b=aSkDEw4MLaAEC0kGwGr4pmxiGg6C3cVq2Z4J7LxfsgvZXkv9+J/ oG6HgPM2qvV2dD1ne7Al2OcAAmvuJoLPcNnyi2qMpNBL6PzErAJeRcJqPhonSZ2y XNfp20fT0wuS5k2ozmkMyVLxORvSOpY77atklliZGW9HNVmk9ncnkxxs= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ijs.si Received: from mail.ijs.si ([IPv6:::1]) by amavis-proxy-ori.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:::1]) (amavisd-new, port 10012) with ESMTP id 75rHnr80t2Ie; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:45:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from mildred.ijs.si (mailbox.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::143:1]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:45:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from neli.ijs.si (neli.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80:88:21c:c0ff:feb1:8c91]) by mildred.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3k5qPW1PjszQ2; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:45:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from neli.ijs.si ([2001:1470:ff80:88:21c:c0ff:feb1:8c91]) by neli.ijs.si with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:45:35 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:45:35 +0100 From: Mark Martinec To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Removal of XAA acceleration in X.org, and older NVIDIA GeForce Organization: J. Stefan Institute Message-ID: <9f15ce6462062541cbaf3919ec420315@mailbox.ijs.si> X-Sender: Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:45:42 -0000 /usr/ports/UPDATING: > 20141219: > AFFECTS: users of x11/xorg and all xorg ports > AUTHOR: dumbbell@FreeBSD.org > The X.Org server (x11-servers/xorg-server) is updated to 1.14. http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/2014/11/19/xserver-1-14-update-ready/ > Changes since xserver 1.12 > The most visible change is the removal of XAA. This is a 2D=20 > acceleration > method which was deprecated some time ago, in favor of EXA or=20 > Intel-specific=E2=80=99s > UXA or SNA. For the end user, this means that some drivers=20 > (xf86-video-*) > are not supported anymore, mostly for older GPUs according to Phoronix. > If you encounter this case, please let us know. Ouch!!! Upgrading X -related ports went with no problems (FreeBSD 10.1), but I didn't realize the outcome would be so terrible. Scrolling or refreshing a full-screen page in a web browser now feels like in the good old days of a 19200 bps line and a glass terminal. Even scrolling or paging through plain text with 'less' or editor on a KDE konsole or xterm feels sluggish. Certainly the size of the display does not help in this regards (2560x1600). The Xorg.0.log reports: NV: Found NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT at 02@00:00:0 Now I fear that upgrading ports on my other workstation (GeForce 7600 GS) would lead to similar results. I know these graphics boards are not the latest of breed (the CPU and mb are still fairly decent). They were chosen for being fan-less, and coping sufficiently well with 2D and text even on largish displays. So is my only choice now replacing graphics with heat- and noise- sources I don't really need, or being stuck with frozen ports? I wonder if I'm the only one in this situation. Mark