Hi FreeBSD people,
I have turned to FreeBSD not long ago. Unfortunately the whole system still feels a little slow compared to others like my old windows box or Xubuntu, so I would like to discuss some improvements with you.
So maybe this will be a lot of information, but I hope you people can help me. I have read all the rules before posting and I will also make use of all the proper formatting. Please help me with this.
__1 Graphics Driver
[CMD=]$ dmesg | grep agp[/cmd]
For that I have installed the:
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel
I am not sure if the following will be a better solution in terms of spead
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel29/
Q1.1: Do you have any experience with the above graphics chipset and the newer driver in terms of performance?
Q1.2: Should I switch to the newer one?
__2 Xorg Performance
Maybe someone could have a look at the xorg.conf, as I feel the server is somewhat slow. I don't know if this is the old graphics driver or some misconfiguration in xorg.conf.
I would also appreciate any tips on what I can actually turn off in order to improve the whole stuff.
Q2.1: I cannot quite figure out, if I need everything in the Modules section, or if something that I can comment out.
Q2.2: Another one is, I have a hell of a lot of fonts, does this slow done the server?
Q2.3: Should I turn on AIGLX or XAANoOffscreenPixmaps?
Q2.4: Maybe there is something I left out, so I don't use some of the features of my graphics card?
I have turned to FreeBSD not long ago. Unfortunately the whole system still feels a little slow compared to others like my old windows box or Xubuntu, so I would like to discuss some improvements with you.
So maybe this will be a lot of information, but I hope you people can help me. I have read all the rules before posting and I will also make use of all the proper formatting. Please help me with this.
__1 Graphics Driver
[CMD=]$ dmesg | grep agp[/cmd]
Code:
agp0: <Intel 82945GM (945GM GMCH) SVGA controller> on vgapci0
agp0: aperture size is 256M, detected 7932k stolen memory
For that I have installed the:
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel
I am not sure if the following will be a better solution in terms of spead
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel29/
Q1.1: Do you have any experience with the above graphics chipset and the newer driver in terms of performance?
Q1.2: Should I switch to the newer one?
__2 Xorg Performance
Maybe someone could have a look at the xorg.conf, as I feel the server is somewhat slow. I don't know if this is the old graphics driver or some misconfiguration in xorg.conf.
I would also appreciate any tips on what I can actually turn off in order to improve the whole stuff.
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Touchpad0" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "DontZap" "Off"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/terminus-font/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/URW/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Droid/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/terminus-font/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/WINXP/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/WIN7/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/MAC/"
FontPath "/home/pantu/.fonts/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "record"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Touchpad0"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/psm0"
Option "Protocol" "alps"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
Option "DPMS"
DisplaySize 338 211
VertRefresh 60
EndSection
Section "Device"
#Option "AIGLX" # what is this for
Option "DRI" "True"
Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
#Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "True" # what is this for
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Q2.1: I cannot quite figure out, if I need everything in the Modules section, or if something that I can comment out.
Q2.2: Another one is, I have a hell of a lot of fonts, does this slow done the server?
Q2.3: Should I turn on AIGLX or XAANoOffscreenPixmaps?
Q2.4: Maybe there is something I left out, so I don't use some of the features of my graphics card?