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From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
To: adaplas@pol.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc1: scrolling with tdfxfb 5 times slower
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:48:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409011348.19645.ornati@fastwebnet.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409011821.06520.adaplas@hotpop.com>

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On Wednesday 01 September 2004 12:21, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 September 2004 15:20, Paolo Ornati wrote:
> > Ok, with this patch and CONFIG_FB_3DFX_ACCEL=y the scrolling speed
> > comes back (only a bit slower than with 2.6.8.1 without
> > CONFIG_FB_3DFX_ACCEL):
> >
> > $ time cat MAINTAINERS: ~2.67s
>
> Ok.  However, I'm still wondering at the scrolling speed, it's a bit
> slower than what I would expect (I get < 1 second with vesafb which is
> completely unaccelerated).
>
> Did you set info->flags = FBINFO_DEFAULT | FBINFO_HWACCEL_YPAN?
yes

> Do you use the 'nopan' boot option?
no

>
> Because if you answer yes to the first question and no to the second,
> that means that tdfxfb_pan_display() is probably broken.
>
> BTW, what does fbset -i say, and what's your hardware setup?

ASUS A7V (VIA Apollo KT133 Chipset)
AMD Duron 750
3dfx Voodoo Banshee 16 MB

lspci -v (attached)

$ fbset -i:	(from 2.6.9-rc1 + your new patch without CONFIG_FB_3DFX_ACCEL: 
see the next e-mail)

mode "800x600-85"
    # D: 60.753 MHz, H: 55.839 kHz, V: 84.992 Hz
    geometry 800 600 800 20971 8
    timings 16460 160 64 36 16 64 5
    accel true
    rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0
endmode

Frame buffer device information:
    Name        : 3Dfx Banshee
    Address     : 0xe4000000
    Size        : 16777216
    Type        : PACKED PIXELS
    Visual      : PSEUDOCOLOR
    XPanStep    : 0
    YPanStep    : 1
    YWrapStep   : 0
    LineLength  : 800
    MMIO Address: 0xe0000000
    MMIO Size   : 33554432
    Accelerator : Unknown (31)


>
> > Another interesting thing is that if I enable CONFIG_FB_3DFX_ACCEL
> > without your patch the screen becomes black and the kernel stop working
> > at boot time (when the mode switch happens).
>
> tdfxfb_cursor() is broken, so I disabled that.  It's the reason your
> machine hangs at boot time if CONFIG_FB_3DFX_ACCEL is set to y.

ok

>
> Tony

-- 
	Paolo Ornati
	Gentoo Linux (kernel 2.6.9-rc1)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-01 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-31 19:33 2.6.9-rc1: scrolling with tdfxfb 5 times slower Paolo Ornati
2004-08-31 20:28 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-01  7:10   ` Paolo Ornati
2004-08-31 23:29 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-01  7:20   ` Paolo Ornati
2004-09-01 10:21     ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-01 10:51       ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-01 11:55         ` Paolo Ornati
2004-09-01 20:10           ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-02  9:23             ` Paolo Ornati
2004-09-02 12:20               ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-02 17:10                 ` Paolo Ornati
2004-09-02 19:52                   ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-01 20:20           ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-02  9:26             ` Paolo Ornati
2004-09-01 11:48       ` Paolo Ornati [this message]
2004-09-01  1:21 ` David S. Miller

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