Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:36:44 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: My desktop travails, 2: Glacially slow X.org Message-ID: <200411081536.45066.kirk@strauser.com>
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--nextPart1748814.vncYj8zJPY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I recently consolidated my underloaded FreeBSD personal web/nameserver with= =20 my underused Debian workstation by scavenging all of the good hardware from= =20 the Debian machine into the FreeBSD system and installing X and KDE on the= =20 result. My first migration glitch was configuring my 7-button trackball,=20 but that's working now and I'm ready to tackle the next project. The new server/workstation is a Thunderbird 1.4GHz with 1.25GB of RAM and a= =20 GeForce 2 MX 400 graphics card. I'm running OS 5.3 (built today), and all= =20 ports up-to-date (as of Sunday). Basically, many X features are painfully slow - much slower than they were= =20 on the old Debian system with the same graphics card, less RAM, and a=20 P-III/933 CPU. The biggest example is text scrolling with anti-aliased=20 fonts. I used to enable subpixel rendering on my square-pixel CRT and it=20 looked beautiful. FreeBSD and X.org renders the fonts as nicely, but I can= =20 physically watch the screen being updated every time the screen scrolls in= =20 Konsole. I can switch back to aliased fonts and get reasonably fast=20 scrolling, but the text looks ugly and I'd rather not resort to that. Also, although I'm using the nvidia-driver port, glxgears reports a=20 framerate between 2 and 3. I've tried using both Nvidia's AGPGART and=20 =46reeBSD's own (following the instructions that came with the port and=20 rebooting between trials to unload the agp.ko kernel module). So, any idea why my text rendering and GLX are so painfully slow? =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --nextPart1748814.vncYj8zJPY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBBj+bt5sRg+Y0CpvERAnUNAJ4g8cVKcG3tM3I5CJkBfJwVRw7DEACgjtsq i+abuSwKrW+g1bO/NYN+b0g= =8nXC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1748814.vncYj8zJPY--
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