From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Feb 6 20:21:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00757 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 20:21:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pagesz.net (nina.pagesz.net [208.194.157.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00745 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 20:21:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rhh@pagesz.net) Received: from stealth.dummynet. (juana-7.pagesz.net [208.213.126.7]) by pagesz.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA12773; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 23:21:12 -0500 Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.dummynet. (8.9.1/8.8.8) id XAA08873; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 23:21:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rhh) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 23:21:48 -0500 From: Randall Hopper To: Ulf Zimmermann Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bktr card being slow, what could effect the speed ? Message-ID: <19990206232148.A7794@pagesz.net> References: <19981003051146.A12502@Alameda.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19981003051146.A12502@Alameda.net>; from Ulf Zimmermann on Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 05:11:46AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ulf Zimmermann: |I have the following config: | |bktr0: rev 0x12 int a irq 18 on pci0.18.0 |vga0: rev 0x03 int a irq 19 on pci0.17.0 | |Running fxtv: | | 350 ulf 72 0 9604K 8456K CPU1 1 4:21 55.31% 55.31% XF86_SVGA | 396 ulf 2 0 5196K 3656K select 0 2:26 31.39% 31.39% fxtv | |with AccelX it is a little bit lower. This machine is a Dual P5-166. |I can not run any larger resolution, the machine gets overloaded. Looks |like it is not doing DMA. (Blast from the past. I know.) Exactly. AccelX does not have DMA support last I heard. XFree86 does (via the XF86VidMode extension). So on AccelX, the CPU and system memory are always in the middle of a triple-stage image copy, assuming your server's XImage format is compatible with the Bt chip. If not, it's worse. Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message