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On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:29:11 +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: >> I did some reading about UMS vs KMS and noted a Phoronix page showing >> that for many of their benchmarks ran faster in UMS. Not that it will >> help us if we can't get UMS drivers for many GPUs. Or maybe some *BSD >> dev will write a UMS driver, but don't hold your breath 8-) > >Looks like you've swapped UMS and KMS at least partially. Here is a link to the Phoroni story. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ati_ubuntu_kmsums&num =1 pages 2 and 3 have the graphs. Every picture tells a story. <skip lots> >> Finally, having "wasted" a bunch of money (by my standards) getting a >> machine that avoided broadcom wi-fi and nvidia graphics and had a >> supported 10/100/1000 NIC (alc), I'd love to know what I should look >> for in graphics in future in laptop land. >> >Currently, even if not perfect intel chipsets are useable under >OpenBSD (I switched to a Thinkpad X220 as my main hacking laptop 2 >month ago, and except for crappy iwn performance, it rocks). Well, I'd hardly call my machine usable with X given that it only works fine if you tread carefully and don't succumb to the muscle memory temporarily and hit ctl-alt-Fx. If I could get in and out of X and the wscons I wouldn't care about render speed >For ATI chips, if you stay away from chips that require KMS (mostly >the recent integrated ones), there are >still a bunch of laptops with separate GPUs that should just work with >the ati 6.14.3 driver once we figure out how to put it back in >OpenBSD. The budget doesn't run to sending you my E320 and replacing it with an x220, sadly. If you missed my post on misc@ you can find i at: http://old.nabble.com/Lenovo-E320%3A-strange-things-happen-with-X-td3332 0989.html It is really wierd trying to find where the bug lies in the E320. I have found that the E320 seems to be frozen but it isn't totally. I can have an ssh session running from another host and it doesn't freeze. OTOH I cannot establish an ssh connection when I'm jammed in X. If I do have a session then top looks normal and nothing hits my eye using ps auxwww. I'll keep looking though and if you guys make changes I'll hopefully spot them and do tests. I am subscribed to cvs@ but if I'm away for many days I tend to rush through it on my return. So I'll sample http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/xenocara/driver/xf86-video-intel/ from time to time. Merci beaucoup, Rod/ *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
