Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:15:30 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOLVED: My desktop travails, 2: Glacially slow X.org Message-ID: <200411151315.34194.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <20041115170646.GC96960@keyslapper.org> References: <200411081536.45066.kirk@strauser.com> <200411150939.37073.kirk@strauser.com> <20041115170646.GC96960@keyslapper.org>
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--nextPart1210455.KkOtq89Nt7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 15 November 2004 11:06, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > 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. Not here. I use sub-pixel antialiased fonts in my Konsole windows because = I=20 like the way it looks. On the Linux desktop at work (and the deprecated=20 Linux desktop at home), there was no noticeable performance hit for doing=20 so during regular interactive usage. That is, a "make buildworld" or other= =20 take that outputs huge volumes of text would take slightly longer, but=20 interactive processes like vim, less, and so on were as fast as with=20 non-antialiased fonts to be eye. However, the exact same fonts were=20 rendered horribly slowly under FreeBSD. If I were scrolling through a=20 screen of text, I could literally watch the lines being redrawn as the page= =20 moved. Enabling "RenderAccel" fixed the problem, although I'm still not=20 sure why I have to use it under FreeBSD to get acceptable speed but not=20 under Linux. > 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. It's running pretty well now, so I'm content with the current setup. I'm=20 not a gamer so I don't know if it would run GL apps well, but the 2D is=20 fast enough that it's perfectly usable forr me. > But enough of that. I'm not finding any docs on the RenderAccel option. > Can you point me to it? Sure. It's mentioned in /usr/X11R6/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.Linux . =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --nextPart1210455.KkOtq89Nt7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBBmQBW5sRg+Y0CpvERAnU5AKCPXu8OBlKrgoiHhEkz0WWOP2tgwACfR5jt hOnNYdowIWL2DQg2aTcQQrw= =/bMf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1210455.KkOtq89Nt7--
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