Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:26:20 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: george+freebsd@m5p.com Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mach64 video driver considered harmful Message-ID: <20100118172620.GA65901@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <201001180134.o0I1YvBt002434@m5p.com> References: <201001180134.o0I1YvBt002434@m5p.com>
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--82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:34:57PM -0500, george+freebsd@m5p.com wrote: > My hardware: > AMD Athlon XP 1500+ > 512MB DDR memory > ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL AGP 2X rev 39 >=20 > I can boot into FreeBSD 7.0 or 7.2. When I boot into 7.0, I get Xorg 1.4= =2E2 > and the module called "atimisc" attaches to my video card. You can see i= ts > x11perf output at: > http://www.m5p.com/~george/x11perf.7.0.txt > Its Xorg log is at: > http://www.m5p.com/~george/Xorg.7.0.txt >=20 > When I boot into 7.2, I get Xorg 1.6.1, and a module called "mach64" atta= ches > to my video card. You can see its x11perf output at: > http://www.m5p.com/~george/x11perf.7.2.txt > Its Xorg.log is at: > http://www.m5p.com/~george/Xorg.7.2.txt What is in your xorg.conf in both cases? Is the agp kernel module loaded? =20 <snip>=20 > In terms of everyday use (which for me means Terminal, firefox, and > mplayer), however, it just feels much, much slower. >=20 > The two logs look largely the same, except for which driver is used. The That just appear that way, I think. There have been changes between Xorg 1.4 and 1.6. The ATI wrapper driver (in 1.6.x at least) detects the hardware, a= nd loads the appropriate driver, be it radeon, r128 or mach64. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAktUmbsACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUXrQCbBcv3hm2ngQJMf7WjIsZ4AhiM gE0An3aYNIHZBsq7N26NcvZ5U6B4/qYH =bXyq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs--
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