From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 22 02:14:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA23372 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 02:14:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA23290; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 02:13:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA10985; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:09:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:09:09 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Pierre.Dampure@barclayscapital.com cc: fn@radio-do.de, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Weired top display at smp current kernel from today In-Reply-To: <711DCB8FB391D111B9DD00805F8BDDBAF7ED39@exips0019.itops.ldn.bzwint.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 Pierre.Dampure@barclayscapital.com wrote: > > Frank, > > Are you by any chance running an ELF version of X? I experienced pretty > weird results over the past few days with and ELF X (built as per the port > mods posted to the list): a make world running under X would basically bring > the box to a halt, massive delays when typing characters on any of the other > VTs, etc... this is on a box with 384Mb RAM, SMP w/PPro 200/512 and more > than 256Mb free / no swap used, doing nothing else than the build. > > I'll be rebuilding the box tonight and verify whether this is still > happening now that we have "official" XFree86 port mods. Hey, I had this. I installed ELF XFree86 and it rewrote the /usr/X11R6/bin/X link to point at XF86_SVGA instead of my usual Xaccel. I decided to stay with XF86_SVGA for a few days for kicks but scrolling was so slow (the card is an 8Mb MGA Mill II) that I swapped back. I don't remember it being this slow last time I tried it and the MGA is supposed to be one of XFree86's faster servers :-(. It was acting as if it was a dumb framebuffer. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message