From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Oct 21 19:26:51 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0792EE37C69 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:26:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (host-209-190-254-14.client.atlantech.net [209.190.254.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail", Issuer "mail" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34D7B67832 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:26:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (tripel [192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id v9LJQVcA069788; Sat, 21 Oct 2017 15:26:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 15:26:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill To: Adam Schaefers cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow xorg after upgrade In-Reply-To: <86tvyx81ay.fsf@scha.efers.org> Message-ID: References: <86tvyx81ay.fsf@scha.efers.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:26:51 -0000 Thanks to all who replied; it's fixed. Adam, you hit the nail on the head. It turns out that xorg was looking for intel_drv.so, which is correct, but that driver had "somehow" vanished from /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers. Failing to find the Intel driver, xorg fell back to the modesetting driver. I didn't expect a previously-working driver to be deleted like that, so it wasn't the first thing I looked for. Anyway, the fix turned out to be as simple as # pkg install xf86-video-intel Thanks again. On Tue, 17 Oct 2017, Adam Schaefers wrote: > Hello Chris, I have had a similar problem myself in the past. I too > believe it is due to misconfiguration and not the newer Xorg version > you have recently installed. It turned out in my case I was using the > wrong video driver. If your proper video driver is not in use, then > Xorg will fall back to using a generic (less performant) driver. I > hope this helps you look in the right direction. > > Adam Schaefers > > Chris Hill writes: > >> Hello list, >> >> Two days ago I had to upgrade xorg (long story). Since then, it seems >> that text entry is laggy, as if the xterm - or any application, for >> that matter - can't keep up with my typing. It feels like the old >> days of typing on an ASR-33; there is a lag of less than one second >> between typing a character and it appearing on screen. Sometimes when >> text draws, I see a moment of raster-looking junk. This is especially >> visible in text that updates from a program, such as the in-progress >> statistics from fetch. Or even when pasting text via middle-click. Or >> even when moving the cursor with the arrow keys while writing this >> email. >> >> Is this just an example of new software being more more bloated? It >> seems to me that under the old regime things were snappy-quick. >> >> Before: xorg-7.7_1 >> After: xorg-7.7_3 >> >> Both: fvwm-2.6.5_7 >> >> Both: >> $ uname -mriKv 10.3-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11 #0: Mon Oct 24 18:49:24 >> UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC >> amd64 GENERIC 1003000 >> >> Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ]