Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:23:46 +0200 From: Frank Nobis <fn@radio-do.de> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Pierre.Dampure@barclayscapital.com Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weired top display at smp current kernel from today Message-ID: <19980922112346.A12636@radio-do.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809221005440.8607-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>; from Doug Rabson on Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 10:09:09AM %2B0100 References: <711DCB8FB391D111B9DD00805F8BDDBAF7ED39@exips0019.itops.ldn.bzwint.com> <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809221005440.8607-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 10:09:09AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > 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. That may be a difference. I'm running the Xaccel server. The Matrox g200 agp card is currently not supportted in XF86_SVGA. Regards Frank -- Frank Nobis Email: PGP AVAILABLE Landgrafenstr. 130 dg3dcn http://www.radio-do.de/~fn/ 44139 Dortmund Powered by SMP FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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