Very slow xfce
Hello, I am having a very strange problem. I just finished installing Xfce-4.4 and got it to work with XDM. But all xfce native applications are behaving very strangely: 1. The terminal doesn't echo back my characters till I've typed the next character. This is applicable to backspace key and password prompts (which wont show up till _after_ if finished typing and pressed enter) 2. The menus dont render properly. Again, I can see the the items only when I hover over them. xterm works fine, so do menus within Firefox. Although my cursor disappears in Firefox's text-boxes sometimes. I have just installed exactly this combination on another system and it works fine. I am quite at a loss where to even start looking. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Nishita ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow xfce
Nishita Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I am having a very strange problem. I just finished installing Xfce-4.4 and got it to work with XDM. But all xfce native applications are behaving very strangely: 1. The terminal doesn't echo back my characters till I've typed the next character. This is applicable to backspace key and password prompts (which wont show up till _after_ if finished typing and pressed enter) 2. The menus dont render properly. Again, I can see the the items only when I hover over them. xterm works fine, so do menus within Firefox. Although my cursor disappears in Firefox's text-boxes sometimes. I have just installed exactly this combination on another system and it works fine. I am quite at a loss where to even start looking. Any help would be appreciated. Just as a start, until the experts arrive .. Is Xfce just too much for the system? It ran nicely here a while back on a 900mhz machine - but was noticeably slower than fvwm, so I ditched it :-) Firefox works - but does it take forever for ff to start? Xterm works - close down firefox and everything else, fire up an xterm and run top - is there anything using up a lot of memory or cpu that shouldn't be there at all? Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log - any interesting error messages? What does your .xinitrc look like? atb Glyn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow xfce
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Xfce just too much for the system? It ran nicely here a while back on a 900mhz machine - but was noticeably slower than fvwm, so I ditched it :-) It's a brand-new laptop, so I don't think it's got to do with memory or processor speed. Top doesn't show anything. Maximum cpu usage percentage is within single digits and so is the memory usage. Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log - any interesting error messages? Nothing I can spot. What does your .xinitrc look like? It has only one line: /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 reg, Nishita -- http://nishita.50webs.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow xfce
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log - any interesting error messages? Nishita Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nothing I can spot. Okay, I didn't see this earlier. [drm] failed to load kernel module i915 (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed. (EE) intel(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. I have dri-7.0.3_1,2 installed xdriinfo gives # xdriinfo Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Error: Couldn't open display -- reg., Nishita -- http://nishita.50webs.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow xfce
Nishita Desai writes: Nishita Okay, I didn't see this earlier. Nishita [drm] failed to load kernel module i915 Nishita (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed. Nishita (EE) intel(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. Nishita I have dri-7.0.3_1,2 installed DRI support for 965G in FreeBSD is available in CVS, and I'm using that with no issues. I've not checked-out complete tree only the 'src/sys/dev/drm' directory. 1. Backup /usr/src/sys/dev/drm somewhere . 2. Check out ':pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/drm' using cvs and place the checked-out 'drm' at /usr/src/sys/dev . 3. Now compile again drm module by executing: # make -C /usr/src/sys/modules/drm all install HTH -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- pgpt3d2FBYZCA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Very slow xfce
Nishita Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log - any interesting error messages? Nishita Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nothing I can spot. Okay, I didn't see this earlier. [drm] failed to load kernel module i915 (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed. (EE) intel(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. I have dri-7.0.3_1,2 installed xdriinfo gives # xdriinfo Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Error: Couldn't open display Try adding this to xorg.conf Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection hth Glyn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
