On 10/19/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's true, but once everything is loaded and the system has been running long enough to figure out what belongs in swap and what belongs in memory, simple stuff shouldn't take too long. Simple stuff like opening an xterm.
following up, I've installed a dual-head matrox g450, using xorg's mga driver and its 2d performance is head and shoulders over the i810 driver. Running in dual-head mode, 1280x1024 16bit color, using xinerama. ive also switched onto a newer hd and a nforce2 mb with a dual-channel memory setup, it has a athlon 1100 in it and performance in kde from ports is acceptable. most apps are loading in under a second (including firefox) and with the eye candy all turned on. thanks to the person who kept a link up to a dual-head mga xorg.conf in the archives, posting it in this message for future installations: OpenBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #1107: Sat Sep 16 19:15:58 MDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 1.84 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real mem = 1073250304 (1048096K) avail mem = 971014144 (948256K) using 4256 buffers containing 53764096 bytes (52504K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(70) BIOS, date 08/12/03, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfbba0, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0000 (37 entries) bios0: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6570 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 70102 dobusy 1 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xdaf4 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfda30/192 (10 entries) pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 10 11 12 pcibios0: no compatible PCI ICU found pcibios0: Warning, unable to fix up PCI interrupt routing pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x9000 0xcc000/0x1800 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 PCI" rev 0xc1 "NVIDIA nForce2" rev 0xc1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 not configured "NVIDIA nForce2" rev 0xc1 at pci0 dev 0 function 2 not configured "NVIDIA nForce2" rev 0xc1 at pci0 dev 0 function 3 not configured "NVIDIA nForce2" rev 0xc1 at pci0 dev 0 function 4 not configured "NVIDIA nForce2" rev 0xc1 at pci0 dev 0 function 5 not configured pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 ISA" rev 0xa3 nviic0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "NVIDIA nForce2 SMBus" rev 0xa2 iic0 at nviic0 "unknown" at iic0 addr 0x2f not configured iic1 at nviic0 ohci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 USB" rev 0xa3: irq 5, version 1.0, legacy support usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: NVIDIA OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered ohci1 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 "NVIDIA nForce2 USB" rev 0xa3: irq 12, version 1.0, legacy support usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: NVIDIA OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered ehci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 2 "NVIDIA nForce2 USB" rev 0xa3: irq 10 usb2 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: NVIDIA EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered nfe0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 LAN" rev 0xa1: irq 10, address 00:10:dc:fd:a7:d7 icsphy0 at nfe0 phy 1: ICS1893 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 auich0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 AC97" rev 0xa1: irq 5, nForce2 AC97 ac97: codec id 0x414c4720 (Avance Logic ALC650) ac97: codec features 20 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, Realtek 3D audio0 at auich0 ppb0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 PCI-PCI" rev 0xa3 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vendor "3Com", unknown product 0x1050 (class network subclass ethernet, rev 0x00) at pci1 dev 8 function 0 not configured rl0 at pci1 dev 9 function 0 "D-Link Systems 530TX+" rev 0x10: irq 12, address 00:40:05:81:5b:d9 rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal PHY puc0 at pci1 dev 10 function 0 "US Robotics 3CP5610" rev 0x01: com pccom3 at puc0 port 0 irq 11 0 : ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pciide0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 IDE" rev 0xa2: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD2500JB-00REA0> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 238475MB, 488397168 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <LITEON, CD-ROM LTN526S, YS0J> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 AGP" rev 0xc1 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 vga1 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Matrox MGA G400/G450 AGP" rev 0x85 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: W83627HF npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec biomask f765 netmask f765 ttymask ffe7 pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support uhidev0 at uhub0 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 uhidev0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse, rev 2.00/11.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons and Z dir. wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 auich0: measured ac97 link rate at 47986 Hz, will use 48000 Hz Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "true" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/ghostscript" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/freefont" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/mscorefonts/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/terminus" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "wsmouse" Option "Device" "/dev/wsmouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" #DisplaySize 360 270 # mm ### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC: HorizSync 30.0 - 79.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Starlogic" ModelName "flat panel" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" #DisplaySize 360 270 # mm ### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC: HorizSync 30.0 - 79.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "Starlogic" ModelName "flat panel" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "PciRetry" # [<bool>] #Option "SyncOnGreen" # [<bool>] #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>] #Option "Overlay" # [<str>] #Option "MGASDRAM" # [<bool>] #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] #Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>] #Option "ColorKey" # <i> #Option "SetMclk" # <freq> #Option "OverclockMem" # [<bool>] #Option "VideoKey" # <i> #Option "Rotate" # [<str>] #Option "TexturedVideo" # [<bool>] #Option "Crtc2Half" # [<bool>] #Option "Crtc2Ram" # <i> #Option "Int10" # [<bool>] #Option "AGPMode" # <i> #Option "AGPSize" # <i> #Option "DigitalScreen1" # [<bool>] #Option "DigitalScreen2" # [<bool>] #Option "TV" # [<bool>] #Option "TVStandard" # [<str>] #Option "CableType" # [<str>] #Option "NoHal" # [<bool>] #Option "SwappedHead" # [<bool>] #Option "DRI" # [<bool>] #Option "MergedFB" # [<bool>] #Option "Monitor2HSync" # [<str>] #Option "Monitor2VRefresh" # [<str>] #Option "Monitor2Position" # [<str>] #Option "MetaModes" # [<str>] Identifier "Card0a" Driver "mga" VendorName "Matrox Graphics, Inc." BoardName "MGA G450 AGP" BusID "PCI:2:0:0" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0b" Driver "mga" VendorName "Matrox Graphics, Inc." BoardName "MGA G450 AGP" BusID "PCI:2:0:0" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0a" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Modes "1280x1024" Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Card0b" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Modes "1280x1024" Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Modes "1280x1024" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection