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From: Mrugesh Karnik <mrugeshkarnik@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:53:12
Message-Id: 437DB0CB.1090407@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox by Benno Schulenberg
1 Benno Schulenberg wrote:
2
3 > Flaky hardware? Timings too fast in the BIOS?
4
5 What timings? :S
6
7 > Kernel misconfigured? When the vesa driver doesn't give acceptable
8 > performance, there is something wrong. You might want to actually
9 > answer the questions I asked earlier.
10
11 I couldn't answer the questions back then due to a number of factors.
12 Anyway, I still can't post the output of lsmod from my FC4 system, as I
13 won't be able to boot into it for another couple of days atleast.
14
15 Here's something you asked for:
16
17 CONFIG_AGP=y
18 CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
19 # CONFIG_AGP_INTEL is not set
20
21 CONFIG_DRM=m
22 # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set
23 # CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set
24 # CONFIG_DRM_RADEON is not set
25 # CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set
26 # CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set
27 CONFIG_DRM_VIA=m
28
29 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y
30 CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y
31 CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=y
32 CONFIG_VIA_RHINE_MMIO=y
33 CONFIG_VIA_VELOCITY=y
34 CONFIG_DRM_VIA=m
35 CONFIG_I2C_VIA=m
36 CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO=m
37 CONFIG_SENSORS_VIA686A=m
38
39
40 Here's emerge --info:
41
42 Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4,
43 glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
44 =================================================================
45 System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2500+
46 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
47 ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
48 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2
49 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12
50 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6
51 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
52 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10
53 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20
54 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2
55 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
56 AUTOCLEAN="yes"
57 CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
58 CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
59 CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
60 CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
61 /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
62 /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
63 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
64 CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
65 DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
66 FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks nostrip sandbox sfperms strict"
67 GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
68 http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
69 LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"
70 LINGUAS="en_GB"
71 MAKEOPTS="-j2"
72 PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
73 PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
74 PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
75 PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
76 SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
77 USE="amd64 X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi
78 bash-completion bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cdparanoia
79 cdr crypt curl dbug dbus dio directfb dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss
80 emul-linux-x86 encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb
81 fortran ftp gd gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal idn imap imlib ipv6 jabber
82 jack jack-tmpfs javascript jpeg kde kerberos krb4 lcms ldap libwww
83 lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mailwrapper mbox mhash mime mng mp3
84 mpeg msn musepack mysql ncurses nis nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg
85 opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php png portaudio posix python qt quicktime
86 readline real samba sdl sndfile snmp spell ssl svg sysvipc tcpd tiff
87 till timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unichrome unicode
88 usb userlocales vcd verbose vorbis xine xml xml2 xpm xsl xslt xv xvid
89 yahoo zlib video_cards_via linguas_en_GB userland_GNU kernel_linux
90 elibc_glibc"
91 Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS
92
93 Anything else you'd like to know?
94
95 Mrugesh
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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>