another post-install problem...

ruth · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 10:31 am Post subject: another post-install problem...

hi,
i just finished installing a gentoo 1.4 system on my ( old ! ) compaq Armada
1500C...
after a compilation time of about 24 hrs, i finally managed to have kde-base emerged... ;-)

problem is:
the redrawing of windows ( konsole, konqueror, etc. ) is soooo slow.
redraw is not smooth, as it should be - you can watch every window, as it gets drawed, line by line if you move the window...
i had an LFS system on this laptop before, kde 3.1.1 i guess...
kde speed was really ok, so there's no problem with cpu-speed, the laptop per se or something like that...
maybe someone's got the clue for this problem?
kde is really not usable for me.

program versions:
xfree86 4.3.0, precompiled
kde 3.1.2
( basically all versions from the current portage tree)

ah, btw.:

i first thought, thats a problem with my ( vanilla ) kernel; i changed default configuration drastically, disabled many, many modules, not needed stuff...
after discovering my problems with kde, i thought, well let's try gentoo standard kernel.
i emerged gentoo-sources, compiled via genkernel ( default-config ! )
and rebooted.
effect:
system hangs after entering initrd with something like:
oops, attempted to kill init...
am i doing something wrong here???
so my current situation is:
- system hangs when booting the gentoo kernel
- kde is very, very slow....

greets
rootshell

474 · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 714

Regarding your display performance problem - it would help to at least know what graphics card/chipset you are using and some information about your configuration (not least /etc/X11/XF86Config). What driver are you using? What colour depth? Consider running:

ruth · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:21 am Post subject:

hi,
thanks a lot for your answer... ;-)

well, first of all, i'm not a newbie ( new to gentoo, sure ) but i am working
with linux / un*ces for about 10 years now...
i am also a little bit involved in mplayer development ( just a little bit ;-)

)
ok, the graphics chip is a ct69000 / (chips and technologies)
driver is: suprise, surprise: "chips"
i just copied my ( working !! ) XF86Config from my LFS system running on
X 4.3.99.9 into my gentoo installation. plain X worked so far...
should be no general X problem here... ;-)

ok, MTRR are compiled in, just to make it sure;
i know about the performace boost... ( MPlayer )
and the kernel problem - puh, i'll have to see ;-(
so my problem with kde performance still persists...

greets
rootshell

ruth · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 3:13 pm Post subject: 2nd try...

hi again,
ok, system hangs when probing usb-mass-storage with gentoo-sources.
live-cd boot process finishes without problems...
i will now emerge xfs-sources ( live-cd-kernel ?? ) and try again...
next problem ( xfree / kde performance )
will upgrade to xfree-4.3.99.11 and see if performance is still poor.
( as i said, my lfs system had 4.3.99.9 running with very good preformance )
and i believe, the chips driver is currently under development.
maybe the problem is fixed with a more recent version... ;-)

just in case, i have to file a bug:
where does a hardware dependend bug go in bugzilla ?
( thats limited to compaq armada 1500c / ct69000 graphics-chipset )

rootshell