From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 19:15:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B27616A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:15:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A20543D2F for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:15:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477C9B85B for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:15:36 -0600 (CST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58991-02 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:15:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from janus.daycos.com (janus.daycos.com [204.26.70.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5718FB851 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:15:35 -0600 (CST) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:15:30 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <200411081536.45066.kirk@strauser.com> <200411150939.37073.kirk@strauser.com> <20041115170646.GC96960@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <20041115170646.GC96960@keyslapper.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1210455.KkOtq89Nt7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411151315.34194.kirk@strauser.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at honeypot.net Subject: Re: SOLVED: My desktop travails, 2: Glacially slow X.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:15:37 -0000 --nextPart1210455.KkOtq89Nt7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 15 November 2004 11:06, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Funny, I'm using the nvidia-drivers port with the FreeBSD AGP driver, > and I'm not having any problem with my desktop. I have an Nvidia > GeForce FX 5200 with a dual head config (using the NVIDIA Twinview > feature) and it's just as fast as I could possibly wish. Not here. I use sub-pixel antialiased fonts in my Konsole windows because = I=20 like the way it looks. On the Linux desktop at work (and the deprecated=20 Linux desktop at home), there was no noticeable performance hit for doing=20 so during regular interactive usage. That is, a "make buildworld" or other= =20 take that outputs huge volumes of text would take slightly longer, but=20 interactive processes like vim, less, and so on were as fast as with=20 non-antialiased fonts to be eye. However, the exact same fonts were=20 rendered horribly slowly under FreeBSD. If I were scrolling through a=20 screen of text, I could literally watch the lines being redrawn as the page= =20 moved. Enabling "RenderAccel" fixed the problem, although I'm still not=20 sure why I have to use it under FreeBSD to get acceptable speed but not=20 under Linux. > Last time I ran comparisons, I found identical configs of the same > software on the same hardware to be much faster on FreeBSD. Of course, > this was 4 years ago, but a 55% faster startup on FreeBSD isn't trivial. > This was with XFree86 3.x and Fvwm2.2. It's running pretty well now, so I'm content with the current setup. I'm=20 not a gamer so I don't know if it would run GL apps well, but the 2D is=20 fast enough that it's perfectly usable forr me. > But enough of that. I'm not finding any docs on the RenderAccel option. > Can you point me to it? Sure. It's mentioned in /usr/X11R6/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.Linux . =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --nextPart1210455.KkOtq89Nt7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBBmQBW5sRg+Y0CpvERAnU5AKCPXu8OBlKrgoiHhEkz0WWOP2tgwACfR5jt hOnNYdowIWL2DQg2aTcQQrw= =/bMf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1210455.KkOtq89Nt7--