Re: laptop performace

[Thor Anders Aarhaug]

"Thomas Chadwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Back in January I noticed the performance of Cygwin, and
| Cygwin/Xfree86 in particular, went down the tubes.  I posted to the
| general cygwin mailing list since all things cygwin were affected.
| Here's a link to the root of the thread.  You can follow it to
| conclusion by hitting the "Thread Next" link.
 
hi,

interesting, although not the case for me: the stationary is running
[EMAIL PROTECTED], while the laptop is not. no other bg processes that
takes at lot of CPU resources.

I just can't understand why emacs is "readily" started from .xinitrc,
but not otherwise.

Thor A.
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laptop performace

[Thor Anders Aarhaug]

hi,

just installed 1.3.20-1 on one laptop and one stationary.  full
install on both, no modifications.

I experience a slow performance on the laptop, FS Lifebook E 2.2 GHz
with a Ati Radeon Mobility 7500.  for instance, emacs hardly starts
(unless i put it in the startxwin.bat) and the screen updates are
slow.

I tried messing with the -depth  and -refresh parameters to no avail.

my Dell Optiplex 1.8 GHz shows a completely different behaviour.

I was looking for hardware drivers, but could not find any.

suggestions?

TAA

xfree and .Xauth

[Thor Anders Aarhaug]

hi,

probably basic stuff, but I could not figure it out:

on a new xfree install 4.2.0 I have created a .Xauthority putting the
following in startx:

dd if=/dev/urandom count=1|md5sum|cut -f1 -d/|sed -e 's/^/add :0
. /'|xauth -q 

now, since -auth is defaulted I did nothing there.

listing the xauth file gives

COMPAQ/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  7871d50d031031fe9a28883a93ef3304

display is set to:

$ echo $DISPLAY
:0

when I try to start the xserver I get the following error messages:

$ startx
1+0 records in
1+0 records out

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified


waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

..
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

and so on.


any suggestion on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

TA