Hi Folks, I'm running Suse 6.4 on my Beige G3. How can I tell if X is getting accelerated? If it shows that it's not, how do I turn acceleration on? Graeme -- -- Graeme Nattress: gnattress@mac.com www.systementerprises.com/pixels
Hi, On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Graeme Nattress wrote:
I'm running Suse 6.4 on my Beige G3. How can I tell if X is getting accelerated? If it shows that it's not, how do I turn acceleration on?
Verify, which X server you are actually running by issuing the following command: # file /var/X11R6/bin/X On my box (a PC) it gives the following output: /var/X11R6/bin/X: symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA SVGA is using accelerated features of your video card, so do most other X servers except for the FBdev (FrameBuffer) and VGA16 X server. Most likely you will be using the (unaccelerated) FB X Server. "xdpyinfo" also shows some helpful info about your X window system. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany The most expensive component always breaks first.
On Wed, Jun 28, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Graeme Nattress wrote:
I'm running Suse 6.4 on my Beige G3. How can I tell if X is getting accelerated? If it shows that it's not, how do I turn acceleration on?
Verify, which X server you are actually running by issuing the following command:
# file /var/X11R6/bin/X
On my box (a PC) it gives the following output:
/var/X11R6/bin/X: symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
SVGA is using accelerated features of your video card, so do most other X servers except for the FBdev (FrameBuffer) and VGA16 X server. Most likely you will be using the (unaccelerated) FB X Server. "xdpyinfo" also shows some helpful info about your X window system.
Hmm ;) No SVGA here. We have XFB_Dev and this is slow, yes. There is xpmac.rpm on the CD, but it is a mess to use international keyboards. The aty Framebuffer driver has bugs here and there, the acceleration doesn't work well. Thats the reason why we have no_accel in the Server options, for atyfb only. XFree4 (or Xpmac) will solve the problem. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
At 17:07 Uhr +0200 28.6.2000, Olaf Hering wrote:
Hmm ;) No SVGA here. We have XFB_Dev and this is slow, yes. There is xpmac.rpm on the CD, but it is a mess to use international keyboards.
IIRC more or less all it took to set up Xpmac to use a swiss german keyboard under linuxppc was the following wrapper script: (I wrote it in Perl to be able to make it SUID - which I don't really need anymore, since at some time Xwrapper seems to have started to work correctly) #!/usr/bin/perl -w exec '/usr/X11/bin/Xpmac', '-kbdtype', "de_CH(extended)", '-middlekey', '300', '-rightkey', '300', '-nooptionmouse'; The -middlekey 300 -rightkey 300 arguments are workarounds to switch off the option-2/3-key mouse button emulation which would interfere with the '³' and '#' chars on the swiss keyboard. (There is still the button emulation leftoption-click=middle button,rightoption-click=right button, I don't know where this comes from.) I have also edited the keymap file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/de_CH to remap some keys (e.g. I've placed the / key to the usual US keyboard position :-). You can find my map on ftp://testwww.ethz.ch/de_CH . I originally got it from Lukas Karrer, http://www.trash.net/~lkarrer/linux/de_CH-kbd . On the linuxppc-user mailing list has been some discussion about a wrapper script for Xpmac that parses a configuration file similar to XFree86. Christian-.
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