[Openchrome-users] debian and en15000 issues

[Xavier Bachelot]

morten wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I'm having a problem with my via motherboard. Apparently it can do a lot of 
> interesting stuff, but I will get to that when I pass the first opstacle of 
> performance.
> 
> My system is a newly installed debain (stable) and it does not include the 
> openchrome video driver for X.org.  To get it up and running, I used the 
> generic VESA driver. It's slow but it works. When gdm loads the greeter, I 
> can see squares being updated with the background and the greeter itself. 
> yes, it is slow.
> 
> I run XFCE and when I open 5-10 internet pages in firefox, the processor usage 
> is 100%. I take that as an indication that graphics is software rendered, and 
> the adds suck all my processor power.
> 
> To improve the performance, I courageusly downloaded openchrome and compiled 
> it myself ! :-) and it helps to have a howto: 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenChrome . stopped before the 3D part, 
> since via and drm already was running on my system.
> 
> doing a 
> # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> I chose openchrome on the list and in the server log there are no errors and a 
> lot of chitchat from the openchrome driver. But still, performance is as bad 
> as woth the vesa driver.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> debug help:
> - how do I check which driver files xorg uses?
> - how do it check if I still run vesa (or other sw renderer)?
> - are there other explanation for the slow update  of the graphics?
> 
> help is appreciated
> morten
> 
> Info:
> -Xorg log file reports that it detect my graphics card to be 
> P4M800Pro/VN800/CN700, and VIA VT3344 (VM800) - EPIA EN.
> - Newly installed debian system.
> - EN15000 motherboard
> # uname -a
> Linux Epia 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
I would suggest to try to enable AGPDMA. Please read 
http://www.openchrome.org/trac/export/560/trunk/NEWS for details.

Regards,
Xavier