FC9 - S-L-O-W video

[Bill Davidsen]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> FC8, after "upgrade" they are really nasty to use in terms of video. 
>>>> Moving a windows leaves a comet trail of window outlines which take 
>>>> 1-2 seconds to clear, minimizing a window results in a trail of 
>>>> shrinking outlines, the minimize takes seconds and a few seconds 
>>>> after that for the outlines to fade.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Are you sure you haven't somehow ended up with the vesa driver now
>>> selected ?
>>>
>>>   
>> Thanks for the suggestion, but that doesn't seem to be the case. The 
>> xorg.conf is attached.
> 
> Check /var/log/Xorg.log instead to see what's REALLY loaded.

Thousands of lines of blather, telling me nothing other than it found 
the sis module, recognized the chipset, and generated a bunch of 
modelines using it, then found a vesa driver as well. If there's a way 
to tell which is being used other the xorg.conf I don't know it, but the 
requested module in xorg.conf is loaded by X. It didn't find "sisfb" and 
I find no mention of it in packages available, "xorg-x11-drv-sis.i386" 
and "xorg-x11-drv-sisusb.i38" packages are marked installed. "fbset.i38" 
and "xorg-x11-drv-fbdev.i386" packages are also installed, if that tells 
you more than it does me.

I guess the point is that I would hope the install would find something 
closer to what's needed, given that FC7 and FC8 were fine on this machine.

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