This might be helpful to all users haveing a sis-agp card with 4-8Mb Vram
I have included my configuration for reference. I feel that the Xserver is
not using the video memory hence every motion picture runs like a slide
show
I want to do the following
a) Use the linear framebuffer device(my video ramdac) of 4mb.
b) Make the Xserver use Agpart for better performance.
I have refered to the howtos but every thing works only in console the X
seems to be unaffected
Please help
Thanks in advance
--
-shyam
This is my kernel message on start up
Linux version 2.2.19 (root@shyam) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1
2.96-81)) #1 Tue Oct 2 02:59:42 IST 2001
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe6000000, mapped to 0xc4800000, size 4096k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x24, linelength=2400, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c7dc:0000
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c7dfe, set palette = c00c7e5a
vesafb: scrolling: ypan using protected mode interface, yres_virtual=1747
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:8:8:8, shift=0:16:8:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
ESS chip ES1869 detected
<ESS ES1869 AudioDrive (rev 11) (3.01)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5
<ESS ES1688> at 0x330 irq 5 dma 0
<Yamaha OPL3> at 0x388
Sound initialization complete
js: Joystick driver v1.2.15 (c) 1999 Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
js0: SideWinder GamePad at 0x201 [1375 ns res 3-bit id 75 data 5]
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 59999K size
loop: registered device at major 7
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 28M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440LX chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
This is my current xdpyinfo o/p
name of display: :7.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc
vendor release number: 3360
maximum request size: 4194300 bytes
motion buffer size: 256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order: LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats: 2
supported pixmap formats:
depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
depth 24, bits_per_pixel 24, scanline_pad 32
keycode range: minimum 8, maximum 255
focus: window 0x4c00013, revert to Parent
number of extensions: 19
BIG-REQUESTS
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
LBX
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
RECORD
SECURITY
SHAPE
SYNC
XC-APPGROUP
XC-MISC
XFree86-DGA
XFree86-Misc
XFree86-VidModeExtension
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
default screen number: 0
number of screens: 1
screen #0:
dimensions: 800x600 pixels (271x203 millimeters)
resolution: 75x75 dots per inch
depths (1): 24
root window id: 0x26
depth of root window: 24 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x23
default number of colormap cells: 256
preallocated pixels: black 0, white 16777215
options: backing-store YES, save-unders YES
largest cursor: 800x600
current input event mask: 0x5a20bd
KeyPressMask ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask
EnterWindowMask LeaveWindowMask PointerMotionHintMask
ButtonMotionMask StructureNotifyMask SubstructureNotifyMask
SubstructureRedirectMask PropertyChangeMask
number of visuals: 1
default visual id: 0x22
visual:
visual id: 0x22
class: TrueColor
depth: 24 planes
available colormap entries: 256 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
This is my current XF86Config file...
# Device configured by Xconfigurator:
Section "Device"
Identifier "SiS 6326"
VendorName "Sis"
BoardName "Mercury"
VideoRam 4096
Option "sw_cursor"
Option "no_accel" # Use this if acceleration is causing problems
# Option "fifo_moderate"
# Option "fifo_conserv"
# Option "fifo_aggresive"
# Option "fast_vram"
# Option "pci_burst_on"
# Option "xaa_benchmark" # DON'T use with "ext_eng_queue" !!!
# Option "ext_eng_queue" # Turbo-queue. This can cause drawing
# errors, but gives some accel
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
# **************************************************************************
# For enabling frame buffer device
# **************************************************************************
Section "Screen"
Driver "fbdev"
Device "SiS 6326"
Monitor "CustomConfiguration"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "default"
EndSubSection
EndSection
# ************************************************************
# Trying to use sis video driver
# *****************************************************
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