On May 31, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Xorg 6.9 performs nicely on my FreeBSD box, besides the DRI issue
(which hopefully get corrected), I expect a delay due to the nature
of this new, more modular approach.
Same for me.
We already ship 6.9.0 which was released at the end of December,
and is the
same source code as 7.0, only with the old build system still - the
change
between that and 7.1 is not that major. What are you looking for
that you
don't already have?
As a desktop, the lag is terrible, I'm using a Radeon X300/550
sitting on a PCIe; all lovely-jubbly - running FreeBSD, my desktop
with KDE is 'teh snappy' (to coin a Mac phrase), but when it comes
to using the default Xorg with Solaris 10 01/06 (which is 6.8.2),
coupled with the drivers provided, there is terrible lag,
especially when it comes to responsiveness under a heavy load.
Unfortunately, I absolutely have to agree here. With a dualcore cpu,
multiple gigs of ram, and a 7900GT (which Nvidia assured me was
supported with their binary driver), Solaris was *unusable* for me as
a desktop due to this "lag" being described. It's almost like a
stuttering. I saw it on network activity and hd activity *i think*.
It was so terrible, I didn't even bother trying to diagnose it. I'm
willing to give it another shot if somebody wants to help me figure
out what the issue is. It's occured on lots of different hardware for
me though, everything from old athlon xp systems to this current
beast. All with Nvidia video cards, all using the binary nvidia
driver. Oh, and intel 1000g ethernet cards. It's the *only* thing
keeping me from deploying Solaris on my desktop as my primary
development/administration platform. Help me!
The problem is made worse when compiling things on Solaris - the
paths aren't setup, things break when compiling, its a nightmare
just trying to get KDE working - which is the original reason why I
was compiling Xorg 7.1 on Solaris 10; to have a nice snappy server,
KDE desktop.
The paths are something already acknowledged, I brought that up a
week back or so. It's really not hard to fix, it's just a 30 second
PITA when you first install. If you were trying to install/get studio
11 working in a full root zone, I could understand your frustration
(you have to manually link a java directory) but even then it's not
that bad, again a 30 second fix. It sounds like to me you just don't
have the patience to learn a different OS, and you expect Solaris to
be as user-friendly as the current crop of desktop OSs. It's not,
nobody is going to make-believe it is, either. It's getting there
though, just perhaps not quickly enough for your tastes. Enjoy FreeBSD.
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