From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266064AbUALGex (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:34:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266065AbUALGex (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:34:53 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:49899 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266064AbUALGew (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:34:52 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 22:34:43 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, thomas@winischhofer.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jsimmons@infradead.org Subject: Re: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error Message-Id: <20040111223443.16166e07.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200401120121.12122.gene.heskett@verizon.net> References: <20040109014003.3d925e54.akpm@osdl.org> <200401112353.43282.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20040111214259.568cff35.akpm@osdl.org> <200401120121.12122.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gene Heskett wrote: > > >There are no significant fbdev patches in 2.6.1-mm1. There is a DRM > >update. > > Whatever it is, its pure speed on this system here, Andrew. DRM? > lemme see if thats even turned on. Nope "# CONFIG_DRM is not set" > Doing a make xconfig, I see that if I turn it on, there is not a > driver for my gforce2/nvidia, so I naturally turned it back off. > > I do have VIA and agpgart enabled just above it, and over in the > framebuffer menu, support for framebuffer and nvidia/riva are both > checked. > > Anyway, something has made a huge difference in window switching > speeds here, someplace between 2.6.0-mm2 and 2.6.1-mm1. I like it. Beats me. Doing that vmstat measurement which Vladis suggests would be interesting.