On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 16:16 +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 5/20/09, Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:10 -0700, Chris H wrote: > >> > So, zapping is off by default now in 1.6.x. If you want it, add > >> Option > >> > "DontZap" "off". The cross hatch is also gone, that is what the > >> -retro > >> > option is supposed to do. The session leader in a failsafe twm > >> session > >> > is the left hand xterm. Typing exit in that window should exit the > >> > session. > >> > >> DOH! Sorry. My bad. I have since determined that turning off hald && > >> dbus > >> improve performance. I built the X server with the hald option picked. > >> But, when I bounced the box, and started an X session (with a WM), > >> performance was improved. BUT. Performance pretty much sucks. I have 4 > >> of these boards running with the onbord (mach64) video, and the mere > >> 2Mb > >> built in RAM. They run with better performance than does this one with > >> (200Mhz less CPU) comparable RAM && this one has 64Mb onboard && a > >> faster > >> Gpu. But they also run 6.4-STABLE && xorg-6.9. > >> So, I'm going to experiment by rebuilding the X server w/o the HAL > >> driver - make option && untick HAL. Then portupgrade -fi xorg-server. > >> > >> I'll report back should there be any improvement. > > > > So, the use of hal or not shouldn't produce any performance difference. > > It is only used to detect input devices kbd/mouse. > > > > One thing that I have discovered and I'm hoping for someone to send me a > > patch, is that if you build xorg-server without hal support it doesn't > > get linked to pthread libraries. This causes issues with libdrm on > > Intel at least. Not sure what else may be impacted. > > I ignored this info first time, but I will ask now. Does this implies > that libthr is listed in Xorg ldd(1) output? > > I use server build without hal support on 945GM(irq not MSI) and I do > not experience problems with drm/dri/OpenGL/xv or whatever other > protocol you name it.
Yes, if xserver is built with HAL support, I see it linked with libthr. If HAL is disabled, it doesn't appear to be. I'm trying to remember exactly what the reported issue was, but I think it was X crashing on exit. robert. > > There is also my nouveau patch that you could try. That should get you > > EXA and Xv acceleration with the nouveau driver. Overall the reports > > that I've been getting have been good. > > > > robert. > > > >> Thank you very much Robert, for all your time and efforts. > > -- > > Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> > > FreeBSD > > > > -- Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> FreeBSD
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