Hi,
for the same laptop for which I just posted a full dmesg about the
battery problem, which reports this video card:
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS" rev 0xa1
I get a super-slow X11. Dragging an xterm may take half a second, up to
the point where X11 looses track of the mouse move events. Scrolling
XTerm is unusably slwo too.
Using a larger editor like Emacs or Firefox... even worse. It looks
totally unacelercated.
Should the 8400 work? IN the Xorg log I see this:
[ 5902.005] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[ 5902.005] (--) NV: Found NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS at 01@00:00:0
[ 5902.005] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[ 5902.006] (II) Loading sub module "int10"
[ 5902.006] (II) LoadModule: "int10"
[ 5902.007] (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.so
[ 5902.017] (II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 5902.017] compiled for 1.16.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 5902.017] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 18.0
[ 5902.017] (II) NV(0): Initializing int10
[ 5902.017] (II) NV(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
[ 5902.018] (--) NV(0): Console is VGA mode 0x3
[ 5902.018] (II) NV(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen
section
"Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[ 5902.018] (==) NV(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
so the "nv" driver loaded.. but then further below:
[ 5902.185] (**) NV(0): Driver mode "1280x800": 71.0 MHz (scaled from
0.0 MHz), 49.3 kHz, 59.9 Hz
[ 5902.185] (II) NV(0): Modeline "1280x800"x59.9 71.00 1280 1328
1360 1440 800 803 809 823 -hsync -vsync (49.3 kHz eP)
[ 5902.185] (==) NV(0): DPI set to (96, 96)
[ 5902.185] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[ 5902.185] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[ 5902.185] (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.so
[ 5902.200] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 5902.200] compiled for 1.16.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 5902.200] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 5902.200] (II) Loading sub module "xaa"
[ 5902.200] (II) LoadModule: "xaa"
[ 5902.208] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module xaa
[ 5902.208] (II) UnloadModule: "xaa"
[ 5902.208] (II) Unloading xaa
[ 5902.208] (EE) NV: Failed to load module "xaa" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 5902.208] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[ 5902.208] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[ 5902.208] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[ 5902.208] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[ 5902.208] (II) Unloading vesa
[ 5902.208] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[ 5902.224] (--) NV(0): 120.69 MB available for offscreen pixmaps
[ 5902.228] (==) NV(0): Backing store enabled
[ 5902.228] (==) NV(0): Silken mouse disabled
[ 5902.230] (II) NV(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR
disabled message.
[ 5902.237] (==) NV(0): DPMS enabled
[ 5905.804] (--) RandR disabled
[ 5905.856] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable
[ 5905.856] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
[ 5906.010] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast
[ 5906.010] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
[ 5906.011] (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 338 x 211
I suppose the "reverting to software rendering" is the final error and
clue to the problem: no kind of acceleration at all.
Riccardo
