Re: DRI success on Thinkpad x40 (i855GM)

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 22:40:08 +0100
Joel CARNAT <joel%carnat.net@localhost> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> So it's been 3 days I've upgraded and everything looks good here too
> (Intel i945GM). There are still two things that puzzles me:
> 
> 1. glxgears (only) gives ~380 FPS. Any Live-Linux CD I booted gave me
> around 1000 FPS. Is there still things missing in NetBSD DRM ? Or are
> there some other mistery :-)
> 
> 2. if I run `while [ true ]; do tar tvzf
> /net/guarana/home/ptijo/netbsd-HEAD/syssrc.tgz; done` in an xterm
> (urxvtc in fact) and watch `top` in another, I can see tar and gzip
> process use from 2 to 10% of WCPU/CPU whereas Xorg reaches 60% in less
> than a minute. This make load average grow over 1.0. Once again, I think
> this does not happen on Linux Live CD.
> 
> Does this mean I have a faulty configuration ?
> TIA,
>       Jo

It is known that FDO's Linux DRM core implementation runs in circles
around their BSD DRM core. I don't know exactly why. Blair knows more
about this than I do ...