Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 15:26:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Adam Schaefers <sch@efers.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow xorg after upgrade Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1710211515140.83080@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <86tvyx81ay.fsf@scha.efers.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1710172033590.66845@tripel.monochrome.org> <86tvyx81ay.fsf@scha.efers.org>
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Thanks to all who replied; it's fixed. Adam, you hit the nail on the head. It turns out that xorg was looking for intel_drv.so, which is correct, but that driver had "somehow" vanished from /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers. Failing to find the Intel driver, xorg fell back to the modesetting driver. I didn't expect a previously-working driver to be deleted like that, so it wasn't the first thing I looked for. Anyway, the fix turned out to be as simple as # pkg install xf86-video-intel Thanks again. On Tue, 17 Oct 2017, Adam Schaefers wrote: > Hello Chris, I have had a similar problem myself in the past. I too > believe it is due to misconfiguration and not the newer Xorg version > you have recently installed. It turned out in my case I was using the > wrong video driver. If your proper video driver is not in use, then > Xorg will fall back to using a generic (less performant) driver. I > hope this helps you look in the right direction. > > Adam Schaefers > > Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> writes: > >> Hello list, >> >> Two days ago I had to upgrade xorg (long story). Since then, it seems >> that text entry is laggy, as if the xterm - or any application, for >> that matter - can't keep up with my typing. It feels like the old >> days of typing on an ASR-33; there is a lag of less than one second >> between typing a character and it appearing on screen. Sometimes when >> text draws, I see a moment of raster-looking junk. This is especially >> visible in text that updates from a program, such as the in-progress >> statistics from fetch. Or even when pasting text via middle-click. Or >> even when moving the cursor with the arrow keys while writing this >> email. >> >> Is this just an example of new software being more more bloated? It >> seems to me that under the old regime things were snappy-quick. >> >> Before: xorg-7.7_1 >> After: xorg-7.7_3 >> >> Both: fvwm-2.6.5_7 >> >> Both: >> $ uname -mriKv 10.3-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11 #0: Mon Oct 24 18:49:24 >> UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC >> amd64 GENERIC 1003000 >> >> Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging </> ]
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