From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 22 02:26:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA25621 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 02:26:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from trinity.radio-do.de (trinity.Radio-do.de [193.101.164.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA25401; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 02:24:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fn@trinity.radio-do.de) Received: (from fn@localhost) by trinity.radio-do.de (8.9.1/8.8.5/RADIO-1.1) id LAA12645; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:23:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980922112346.A12636@radio-do.de> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:23:46 +0200 From: Frank Nobis To: Doug Rabson , Pierre.Dampure@barclayscapital.com Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weired top display at smp current kernel from today References: <711DCB8FB391D111B9DD00805F8BDDBAF7ED39@exips0019.itops.ldn.bzwint.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug Rabson on Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 10:09:09AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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