Messages in this thread | | | From | storner@image ... | Date | Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:49:02 +0100 | Subject | 132 pre-4: Strange slowdown compared to 132-pre2 |
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Something strange is going on with the speed of graphics display operations in 2.1.132-pre4, compared to pre-2 (never did try pre-3, I'm afraid).
The result is that all graphics display updates are much slower than normal. I can see the color of the root window change from X' default grey pattern to my selected blue - the entire update takes about 1 second when running pre-4, but happens instantly with pre-2. Same effect can be seen when opening e.g. an xterm using a white background color.
System specifics: PII/350, Intel 440BX-based motherboard (Aopen AX6BC), uni-processor and kernel compiled as such, 128 MB RAM, Matrox G200 AGP graphics card, NCR 875-based SCSI controller. I'm running the XiGraphics (Accelerated X) X server in 1024x768x24 bit. System is mostly Red Hat 5.2.
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_M686=y CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_APM=y CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE=y CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PACKET=m CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=y CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=20 CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_SLIP=m CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_PRINTER=m CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y CONFIG_RTC=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m CONFIG_JOLIET=y CONFIG_FAT_FS=m CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m CONFIG_NLS=y CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865=m CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_FB_MATROX=y CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS=m CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI=m CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
-- Henrik Storner Praetra censeo, Microsoftem esse delendam! (Thanks to Erik Corry).
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