From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 18 17:26:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A09106566B for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:26:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C798FC0C for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:26:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o0IHQK1x013192; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:26:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 32A88BA9D; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:26:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:26:20 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: george+freebsd@m5p.com Message-ID: <20100118172620.GA65901@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <201001180134.o0I1YvBt002434@m5p.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201001180134.o0I1YvBt002434@m5p.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mach64 video driver considered harmful X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:26:23 -0000 --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 =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--