On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:15 AM, James Stembridge wrote:
On 4/13/05, Michael Carland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:The issue was that I compile for epia with -march=c3, and the offending
package built a utility for itself, and then failed running it since the desktop
didn't have the c3 magic.
Does using -march-c3 make any noticable performance difference?
Dunno, I've never done it any other way. I just figured since I was compiling from source anyways, I would set the appropriate arch.
I just use standard debian packages (which afaik will work on an i386), even my kernel is just a standard i686 version.
I started with Debian sarge. Trying to work through my tv out problems, I switched to a self compiled Xorg, and not being a deb wizard, I then had to compile everything that depended on X. I'm sure if I took the time, I could have found a deb for Xorg 6.8.2, and learned how to use deb sources so I could do the unichrome patches. Or even just found unichrome debs. But even though it has been frustrating, sometimes I like to build the stuff myself so I know more about how it works.
Regarding giving up on epia, I don't have any of the DMA problems, or even FF/REW problems (although the machine is diskless, so I suppose there are fewer DMA contentions),
I have a disk and haven't see any issues. How might they manifest themselves?
The only stability problem I've had was lockups caused by the longhaul cpufreq module, since I've stopped using that it seems pretty solid.
I never installed longhaul, and I've never had DMA issues. I'm just referring to the constant stream of via dma complaints, system lockups I believe. I imagine you could be right, that longhaul has a large part in it. Also, I know the ivtv people recently discovered they had been letting a bad default value exist for dma timeouts, and this somehow affected via more than other chipsets (via chipsets had a different default dma timeout value?).
But, since I don't seem to have any dma issues, I'm just worrying about the problems I do have. I'm thinking .18 will fix my XvMC VLD, and then I need to find a job, so I can pay someone to come and tune up my TV!
-Michael
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