morten wrote: > Hi > > I'm having a problem with my via motherboard. Apparently it can do a lot of > interesting stuff, but I will get to that when I pass the first opstacle of > performance. > > My system is a newly installed debain (stable) and it does not include the > openchrome video driver for X.org. To get it up and running, I used the > generic VESA driver. It's slow but it works. When gdm loads the greeter, I > can see squares being updated with the background and the greeter itself. > yes, it is slow. > > I run XFCE and when I open 5-10 internet pages in firefox, the processor > usage > is 100%. I take that as an indication that graphics is software rendered, and > the adds suck all my processor power. > > To improve the performance, I courageusly downloaded openchrome and compiled > it myself ! :-) and it helps to have a howto: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenChrome . stopped before the 3D part, > since via and drm already was running on my system. > > doing a > # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > I chose openchrome on the list and in the server log there are no errors and > a > lot of chitchat from the openchrome driver. But still, performance is as bad > as woth the vesa driver. > > any ideas? > > debug help: > - how do I check which driver files xorg uses? > - how do it check if I still run vesa (or other sw renderer)? > - are there other explanation for the slow update of the graphics? > > help is appreciated > morten > > Info: > -Xorg log file reports that it detect my graphics card to be > P4M800Pro/VN800/CN700, and VIA VT3344 (VM800) - EPIA EN. > - Newly installed debian system. > - EN15000 motherboard > # uname -a > Linux Epia 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux > I would suggest to try to enable AGPDMA. Please read http://www.openchrome.org/trac/export/560/trunk/NEWS for details.
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