Frimware Q2E15 and Joyride-2368, good and bad

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:07 AM, Ton van Overbeek <tvoverbeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Ton van Overbeek <tvoverbeek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The bad:
>>> - Bounce (aka 3Dpong) has become completely unplayable. The screen
>>> update is very jerky.
>>>  In earlier builds it was smooth.
>>>  Something to do with the X-server changes for Etoys?
>>>
>>
>> No X changes were made to the joyride stream, except the X corruption
>> fixes by dsd -- but they shouldn't slow down X refresh.  dsd,
>> comments?
>>
> Something changed. When looking with top (logged in with ssh on an other
> computer) I see that
> when running Bounce the cpu is at 100%, with 60-65% on X (!!!) and only
> 30-35% on Bounce.hi
> It seems something is hogging X.
> This is on joyride-2379
> Under 8.1 the X consumption is far less and Bounce updates smoothly.

Perhaps Bounce stopped using an accelerated path to graphics so X has
to work more? xv, xshm, etc

Regards,

Tomeu