Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:21:12 -0500 |
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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 "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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