From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 17:06:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4D816A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:06:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-relay4.mirrorimage.net (mail-relay4.mirrorimage.net [209.58.140.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F216943D39 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:06:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from FreeBSD@keyslapper.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [10.10.4.59]) by mail-relay4.mirrorimage.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BEA269259 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:06:26 -0500 (EST) Received: by localhost (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:06:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:06:46 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041115170646.GC96960@keyslapper.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200411081536.45066.kirk@strauser.com> <200411150939.37073.kirk@strauser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200411150939.37073.kirk@strauser.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: SOLVED: My desktop travails, 2: Glacially slow X.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:06:27 -0000 On 11/15/04 09:39 AM, Kirk Strauser sat at the `puter and typed: > On Monday 08 November 2004 15:36, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > So, any idea why my text rendering and GLX are so painfully slow? > > Text rendering: > > Disregard the warnings and add this to the NVidia card's "Device" section in > xorg.conf: > > Option "RenderAccel" "True" > > GLX: > > Even though the docs say that you might be able to disable FreeBSD's AGPGART > driver by editing /boot/device.hints, if you don't see the expected results > then go ahead and recompile a new kernel with the "device agp" line > commented or remoted and then reboot with it. > > The net result of those two actions is a FreeBSD desktop that's every bit as > smooth and fast as the equivalent Linux system would be. Funny, I'm using the nvidia-drivers port with the FreeBSD AGP driver, and I'm not having any problem with my desktop. I have an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 with a dual head config (using the NVIDIA Twinview feature) and it's just as fast as I could possibly wish. Last time I ran comparisons, I found identical configs of the same software on the same hardware to be much faster on FreeBSD. Of course, this was 4 years ago, but a 55% faster startup on FreeBSD isn't trivial. This was with XFree86 3.x and Fvwm2.2. But enough of that. I'm not finding any docs on the RenderAccel option. Can you point me to it? Thanks Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules.