A little trouble with configuring X

orange400 · 05-11-2006, 12:42 PM

I've been trying to configure X to take full advantage of my hardware on my older laptop, but on all the configs I've put together, it has always ran X in framebuffer mode, which is incredibly slow (try scrolling through a window

). I thought if I posted my X config here, one of you guys would be able to spot what's going on

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse using /dev/input/mice in Kernel 2.6
# Serial Mouse not detected
        InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"

EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
#        Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
#Load  "GLcore"
#Load  "dbe"
#Load  "dri"
#Load  "extmod"
#Load  "glx"
#        Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
#Load  "speedo"
#Load  "type1"
#Load  "freetype"
#Load  "record"
Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver      "kbd"
#        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules""xorg"
Option "XkbModel""pc104"
Option "XkbLayout""us"

EndSection

# Section "InputDevice"
#Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
#Driver      "mouse"
#Option      "Protocol" "Microsoft"
#Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
#Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
#Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
#Option    "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
# EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver      "synaptics"
Option      "Protocol" "auto"
Option      "ZAxisMapping"    "4 5"
Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option    "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
Option      "SHMConfig"       "on"
Option      "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option      "Resolution"      "256"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
Option"SendCoreEvents""true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Buttons"               "5"
EndSection

# Auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier  "Laptop Display Panel 800x600"

# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

    HorizSync   53.7

#    HorizSync30-64         # multisync
#    HorizSync31.5, 35.2    # multiple fixed sync frequencies
#    HorizSync15-25, 30-50  # multiple ranges of sync frequencies

# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

    VertRefresh 85

EndSection


Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
        #Option     "sw_cursor"
        #Option     "hw_cursor"
        #Option     "NoAccel"
        #Option     "ShowCache"
        #Option     "ShadowFB"
        #Option     "UseFBDev"
        #Option     "Rotate"
Identifier  "NeoMagic Graph 128XD"
# The following line is auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config
Driver      "neomagic"
VendorName  "All"
BoardName   "All"
#BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device     "NeoMagic Graph 128XD"
Monitor    "Laptop Display Panel 800x600"
DefaultColorDepth 24
#SubSection "Display"
#Depth     1
#Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
#EndSubSection
#SubSection "Display"
#Depth     4
#Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
#EndSubSection
#SubSection "Display"
#Depth     8
#Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
#EndSubSection
#SubSection "Display"
#Depth     15
#Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
#EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth     16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth     24
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
#SubSection "Display"
#Depth     32
#Modes "800x600" "640x480"
#EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Yea, I've been borrowing a bit of code from Knoppix's autoconfig

It doesn't use the framebuffer, so I've been trying some stuff from its configuration. I don't want to get clumsy and load a bunch of stuff a live CD does when it's not necesary though.

Also, when I have no configuration file (X autodetects every boot), it doesn't use the framebuffer. Interesting ... yeah. Nice and smooth graphics w/o a config file, but less colors and support

Otherwise I probably wouldn't care so much.

The xorgconfig script also ends up with a config that uses framebuffer.

Thank you all!

cwwilson721 · 05-11-2006, 03:42 PM

A few things first:

What distro are you using?
What X server are you using? Xorg or XFree?
Have you tried 'xorgconfig' or 'xorgsetup'(If using Xorg)?

What video card EXACTLY do you have?

Code:

lspci # Gives hardware info
lsmod # Gives module info

What kernel version ?
Code:
```
uname -a
```

A little more info always helps.

You can try my xorg.conf file if you wish, but until we get info on your video card, it won't help much.

orange400 · 05-11-2006, 08:40 PM

I'm on Arch Linux with Xorg. I've tried xorgconfig, and it makes a nice config, but the framebuffer mode is still active and it makes things very slow.

My card is a PCI NeoMagic Graph 128XD w/ 2MB RAM. This is on an older Dell Inspiron 3200 laptop. More info on it can be found here: http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...wist/specs.htm

My kernel version ... I'm not exactly sure at the moment as I'm class, but I'm fairly sure it's the latest stable release. I updated all the packages via pacman after I installed Arch, and they say that they're almost always on top of the latest releases.

Thank you for your help

orange400 · 05-12-2006, 03:41 PM

Any ideas? Thanks for looking, everyone