Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-14 Thread cinap_lenrek
it happens when changing image contents directly with loadimage only. then the software cursor is overdrawn and on mouse move it restores the previous content below the cursor. -- cinap ---BeginMessage--- So, I finally got tired of slow desktop switching with the nvidia driver and thought I'd

Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-14 Thread erik quanstrom
I didn't seem to see any improvement after applying the mtrr patch... did you make any changes to the vganvidia file before compiling? I haven't looked at the 'pat' thing, I'll have to check that out. for the pat business, i did: /n/sources/plan9//sys/src/9/pc/vganvidia.c:371,377 -

Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-14 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:06 AM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: I didn't seem to see any improvement after applying the mtrr patch... did you make any changes to the vganvidia file before compiling? I haven't looked at the 'pat' thing, I'll have to check that out. for the pat

Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-14 Thread erik quanstrom
I believe I properly applied the pat patch, but I'm not really seeing any improvement. At least, it still takes fully two seconds to bring one large window in front of another. that's because the screen is not double-buffered. pat or mtrr do not improve reads from video memory. there is no

Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-14 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:10 AM, erik quanstromquans...@coraid.com wrote: I believe I properly applied the pat patch, but I'm not really seeing any improvement. At least, it still takes fully two seconds to bring one large window in front of another. that's because the screen is not

Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-14 Thread erik quanstrom
As I'm reading it, the change to vganvidia.c you posted above (re-pasted below) does pat stuff. Am I confused? I don't think pat and mtrr are the same thing... they're not. mtrr operates at the physical address level and it's just a bunch of registers that control caching of a (limited set

[9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-13 Thread john
So, I finally got tired of slow desktop switching with the nvidia driver and thought I'd give vesa another shot. However, upon rebooting with vesa in 1600x1200x16 mode, I'm seeing strange artifacts when using vncv and fgb's equis; an example from vnc is shown at

Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jul 13 19:58:54 EDT 2009, j...@csplan9.rit.edu wrote: So, I finally got tired of slow desktop switching with the nvidia driver and thought I'd give vesa another shot. i have had trouble with vesa cursor in 1600x1200. generally when i have trouble, the cursor won't move at all. one

Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-13 Thread lucio
I'm finding that vesa works nicely on my terminal in terms of speed, and I'm not seeing any difference in 16 bit vs. 32 bit color. VESA has stopped being useful on my SiS 55x, flash based workstation. The symptoms are an insistence that the video inputs are incorrect (the monitor complains).

Re: [9fans] ugliness in vesa

2009-07-13 Thread John Floren
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:42 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Mon Jul 13 19:58:54 EDT 2009, j...@csplan9.rit.edu wrote: So, I finally got tired of slow desktop switching with the nvidia driver and thought I'd give vesa another shot. i have had trouble with vesa cursor in