Re: Tuning X

2004-01-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:13:15AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Awaiting your XF86 options to check against mine. > Thanks. Here's my XF86Config, then. (I don't have an XF86Config-4.) # File generated by xf86config. # # Copyright (c) 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby gra

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-27 Thread David Baron
Here is the logfile: (BTW, one can modprobe these things over and over without complain so the system must be smart enough.) Shorewalls messages fill up the dmesg so one cannot get anything from it. XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds4 20030416150820 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Release Date: 18 Marc

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-27 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:29:56PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > r128 is being done as well, says with a 64m portal. > Since the ATI-rage 3D expert has 8meg on it, this might have to be set up. > Apparently, still no functioning "DRI". Further looking in the kernel source suggests that there isn't

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-27 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:29:56PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > agpgart IS being loaded on bootup. Two references. Does lsmod show it loaded twice? I've never tried to do that so I don't actually know if it's possible, but if so it could be causing problems. Try and find if there's a duplicate entr

RE: Tuning X

2004-01-26 Thread David Baron
agpgart IS being loaded on bootup. Two references. r128 is being done as well, says with a 64m portal. Results? gl117 flight game kicks me off the machine. I get a new login screen !! flightgear is still too slow to control or configure foobilliards is the same, both still with a 1-sec frame rate

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-25 Thread David Baron
On Friday 23 January 2004 22:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does it make any difference? What sort of framerate do you get from > > > glxgears? > > > > No difference (yet) > > ...figure for framerate? About one per second. This also means the mouse-cursor moves once per second making it impo

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:40:37AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 22 January 2004 23:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > both modprobe'd without a hitch. [agpgart, r128] > > > > Sounds hopeful, then. > > > > Does it make any difference? What sort of framerate do you get from > > glxgears

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-23 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 22 January 2004 23:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > both modprobe'd without a hitch. [agpgart, r128] > > Sounds hopeful, then. > > Does it make any difference? What sort of framerate do you get from > glxgears? No difference (yet) Do I need these two modules in the modules list of XF

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-22 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:44:24AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 23:06, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, I'd try loading those two modules, agpgart first, then r128. You'll > > probably get some kind of error message if the r128 module doesn't like > > your card. If

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-22 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 23:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I'd try loading those two modules, agpgart first, then r128. You'll > probably get some kind of error message if the r128 module doesn't like > your card. If that is the case, it looks like you'll be needing to search > around on

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-21 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:34:16AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 00:46, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The docs say that ATI 128m cards are supported. ?have an ATI 64m card and > > > this might be the problem. I wonder if the r128 driver would work on the > > > lower m

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-21 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 00:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The docs say that ATI 128m cards are supported.  have an ATI 64m card and > > this might be the problem. I wonder if the r128 driver would work on the > > lower memory card? > > It's worth a shot I'd think, though I don't actually kn

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-20 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:19:53AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Thanks for the advice. > > I tried hand editing the XF86COnfig by hand. Found in previous replies what to > look for. Most all was set up OK. Made sure the DRI section was in all the > various flavors I had since only -4 varients had

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-19 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:02:09AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2004 22:16, Pigeon wrote: > > I have an ATI Radeon 7500 AGP 64M card (not on this system) which gives me > > around 775fps in glxgears, using a woody backport of X 4.3. Not quite the > > same, but the basic principl

RE: Tuning X, more ...

2004-01-18 Thread David Baron
I have a bunch of files on /etc/X11 XF86Config-4 HAS a DRI section, mode=666. XF86Config Does not. The file backed up by the script dialog that I aborted is a copy of the -4 file XF86Config-4.debconf. There is also XF86COnfig.in, -4.in, -4.kxconfi.backup:q All of the -4 files have a DRI sectio

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-18 Thread David Baron
I haven't the foggiest on how to accomplish this. I tried on shell dialog dpkgconfig of xf86config but aborted it when I could no longer answer its question. Never got to any direct-rendoring support. It is included here somewhere along the line but it might be easier to edit the config file it

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-18 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:26:11PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Thanks for your response. > > I have an ATI-rage 3D AGP 64m card. Not a terrific game playing card but my > main focus is not games. However, I would like to get the same level of > performance I have under Windows. There, I have ful