On 25 Sep 2002, James D Strandboge wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 14:06, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > > 
> > > I should also mention that simply left clicking on the title bar of 
> > > a window and dragging to move it does not always work with ShadowFB off.
> > > It's like the mouse just didn't grab it or it takes a couple of seconds to
> > > grab (with a cpu spike).
> > 
> >    This shouldn't have anything to do with ShadowFB or not. 
> 
> Yeah, I didn't think so either except that I would get that same 2
> second or so cpu spike as I did when launching gnome-terminal.  After
> playing with it, it is not that the mouse doesn't grab, it will grab
> every time, it is just sometimes I have to wait for it-- maybe this is
> related to the software/hardware cursor?

   Don't know.  I wouldn't think so.

> 
> > 
> > The only unusual thing I see in the server output is that you've
> > disabled the hardware cursor.  You shouldn't do that, sw cursor
> > is pretty expensive.
> > 
> I disabled it because I ended up with two very small ugly cursors with
> it on.

   That only happens if you run the "nv" driver after the "nvidia" driver.
Running the "nv" driver from startup you won't have that problem.


> 
> >    I'm wondering if this laptop got stuck in some strange power save
> > mode and the graphics engine clocks got turned down really low.
> > What do you get on a benchmark like:
> > 
> >    x11perf -repeat 1 -shmput500
> > 
> > and 
> > 
> >    x11perf -repeat 1 -copywinwin500
> > 
> > 
> 
> I did the following with ShadowFB on at 16 bit color depth:

   I assume you mean without ShadowFB on.  That would be the
interesting case.  And that copywinwin is too high for a 
ShadowFB. 


                        MArk.

> 
> [james@sirius james]$ x11perf -repeat 1 -shmput500
> x11perf - X11 performance program, version 1.5
> The XFree86 Project, Inc server version 40201000 on :0.0
> from sirius.strandboge.cxm
> Wed Sep 25 16:02:46 2002
> 
> Sync time adjustment is 0.0461 msecs.
> 
>     800 reps @   7.6679 msec (   130.0/sec): ShmPutImage 500x500 square
> 
> [james@sirius james]$ x11perf -repeat 1 -copywinwin500
> x11perf - X11 performance program, version 1.5
> The XFree86 Project, Inc server version 40201000 on :0.0
> from sirius.strandboge.cxm
> Wed Sep 25 16:03:12 2002
> 
> Sync time adjustment is 0.0460 msecs.
> 
>   12000 reps @   0.5461 msec (  1830.0/sec): Copy 500x500 from window to
> window
> 
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