Thanks you Matt, Mart, Anthony, Roman & all! On this hardware, graphic hardware acceleration is not on the top of the priorities, for the most of us, I presume.
This said, let's see what improvment the new 8133 laptop by Lemote will offer. Its radeon HD 3200 GPU is embedded in a AMD RS780 chipset. Regards Samy Le jeudi 22 novembre 2012 à 02:20 +0600, Roman Mamedov a écrit : > On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:03:55 -0800 > Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:19 AM, s.bouta...@free.fr <s.bouta...@free.fr> > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > We managed to get the graphical desktop working in Debian/Wheezy, > > > thanks to the upgrade of > > > xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion_1.7.6-1loongson_mipsel.deb from [1]. > > What you mean is: we finally gave up on fixing this in Debian and decided to > just direct everyone to use the Anheng repo packages, which btw are available > since ages ago, and howto on that [1] was published by me in March-2011. > > Not that this is particularly bad, just for some factual correctness. :) > > [1] http://romanrm.ru/en/loongson/siliconmotion > > > But I've never tried my pixman code with o32 and frankly don't care if > > it works at all because it's complete nonsense to care about > > performance and also use o32. Advice #2: don't use an o32-ABI > > distribution if you care about performance. Gentoo has n32/multilib > > stage4s with pre-built Xfce available on our mirrors in > > /experimental/mips/desktop-loongson2f/ > > My benchmarks of Debian O32 vs Parabola N32 have shown a difference of about > 8% > in the very best case in favor of Parabola. > > The N32 experimental port of Debian [2] is defunct since a long time ago. And > 8% was way far from being enough to justify switching distros from the > familiar > Debian for me. > > [2] > http://sandyleo26.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/gsoc-proposal-creating-a-new-mips-n32-abi-port-for-debian/ > > As for Gentoo, I don't know, is there even a way to use it on the Yeeloong > without having to personally compile every singly package you install? > Because that's certainly not what I would want to do on a slow netbook. > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-dev mailing list > gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev