Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:31:33 -0800 (PST) From: Mervin McDougall <mcd_advisory@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Getting High resolution console and Xorg to coexist Message-ID: <20051229233133.33554.qmail@web30901.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Hi all I recently installed freebsd 6.0 on my laptop, a compaq presario 2100. Thus far I am satisfied with just about everything that I have been able to accomplish on freebsd. However, I tried setting the high resolution console using the raster graphics on freebsd and this has had some undesirable results. After recompiling my kernel and getting the resolution of the console to 1024x768 I tried playing music on my xmms player and switching between xorg and the virtual console and there would be some degradation of the sound. I am not sure whether there is an increased load on the kernel whenever switching between the two interfaces but I have notice some spiking on xload when switching between the two. I took a friends advice and increased the pcm buffersize and the irqrate but this has had no effect in improving the sound quality. I have noticed as well that when reading long files, there is also a degradation of sound quality. For example while reading NOTES in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf the sound from xmms, which was being played on xfce, would slow down as I paged through the document or when scrolled through line by line using the arrowpad. I am not sure what is causing the problem or why it is behaving in this manner but I would be more than happy to provide any extra information about the problem. I had an opportunity to scan through the mailing lists for similar problems but did not find one that quite fit this descritption. Any assistance would be appreciated Mervin McDougall __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/
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