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SubjectRe: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error
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On Monday 12 January 2004 00:42, Andrew Morton wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
>> However, since I've been running 2.6.1-mm1 here, using the rivafb
>> with an elderly gforce2-mx2 32 megger, I've noted that when
>> running kde-3.1.1a with 8 windows, and a couple of them have
>> multimegabyte backdrops, the biggest one being that famous deep
>> space shot from hubble of about 4 or 5 months back. In any other
>> kernel, switching to that window took about 12 seconds for the
>> backdrop to be converted to 1600x1200x32 and drawn the first time
>> and about 8 seconds for the next time. But with this 2.6.1-mm1
>> kernel, that repeat window switch is so close to instant that I
>> cannot see it being drawn.
>>
>> So as far as I'm concerned, this particular set of fb patches to
>> rivafb *need* to stay in mainline. I'd sure appreciate it, a
>> bunch.
>
>There are no significant fbdev patches in 2.6.1-mm1. There is a DRM
>update.

Whatever it is, its pure speed on this system here, Andrew. DRM?
lemme see if thats even turned on. Nope "# CONFIG_DRM is not set"
Doing a make xconfig, I see that if I turn it on, there is not a
driver for my gforce2/nvidia, so I naturally turned it back off.

I do have VIA and agpgart enabled just above it, and over in the
framebuffer menu, support for framebuffer and nvidia/riva are both
checked.

Anyway, something has made a huge difference in window switching
speeds here, someplace between 2.6.0-mm2 and 2.6.1-mm1. I like it.

--
Cheers, Gene
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