Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:09:09 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Pierre.Dampure@barclayscapital.com Cc: fn@radio-do.de, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Weired top display at smp current kernel from today Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809221005440.8607-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <711DCB8FB391D111B9DD00805F8BDDBAF7ED39@exips0019.itops.ldn.bzwint.com>
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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. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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