On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Brice Goglin wrote:
Hi Robert, A couple months ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding the X server being very slow with the vesa driver. Does this problem still happen today? There has not been many changes upstream in the vesa
For stable and testing ... xserver-xorg: 1:7.1.0-18 xserver-xorg-video-vesa: 1:1.3.0-1 Kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-4-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 --> xorg " (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS INC. " (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: CYBER 2100 " (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: RXT 7.3 (16.28) " (II) VESA(0): virtual address = 0xb7b3b000, " physical address = 0xa0000, size = 65536 " (==) VESA(0): Default visual is TrueColor " (==) VESA(0): Backing store disabled --> mplayer " VO: [x11] 480x352 => 480x352 Planar YV12 [zoom] " SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter --> top " PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND " 3095 root 5 -10 30044 22m 6064 S 46.9 4.4 1:13.40 Xorg " 4166 robert 15 0 50444 22m 15m S 2.7 4.4 0:05.50 mplayer The problem still exists in "testing". For unstable ... " The following packages will be REMOVED " tzdata util-linux util-linux-locales " The following packages will be upgraded: " libc6 libc6-dev libdrm-dev libdrm2 locales xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core " WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. " This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! " util-linux tzdata (due to util-linux) so I really don't want to try to upgrade to unstable right now :-) Still I _think_ the problem is in the vesa driver itself which is the same version across all of stable, testing and unstable. However, I will try again next week. -- Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>) <http://www.debath.co.uk/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]