From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266060AbUALGVT (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:21:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266063AbUALGVT (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:21:19 -0500 Received: from out009pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.131]:58865 "EHLO out009.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266060AbUALGVR (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:21:17 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: Organization: None, detectable by casual observers To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:21:12 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, thomas@winischhofer.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jsimmons@infradead.org References: <20040109014003.3d925e54.akpm@osdl.org> <200401112353.43282.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20040111214259.568cff35.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040111214259.568cff35.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401120121.12122.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out009.verizon.net from [151.205.56.190] at Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:21:15 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 12 January 2004 00:42, Andrew Morton wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> However, since I've been running 2.6.1-mm1 here, using the rivafb >> with an elderly gforce2-mx2 32 megger, I've noted that when >> running kde-3.1.1a with 8 windows, and a couple of them have >> multimegabyte backdrops, the biggest one being that famous deep >> space shot from hubble of about 4 or 5 months back. In any other >> kernel, switching to that window took about 12 seconds for the >> backdrop to be converted to 1600x1200x32 and drawn the first time >> and about 8 seconds for the next time. But with this 2.6.1-mm1 >> kernel, that repeat window switch is so close to instant that I >> cannot see it being drawn. >> >> So as far as I'm concerned, this particular set of fb patches to >> rivafb *need* to stay in mainline. I'd sure appreciate it, a >> bunch. > >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. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.