Frimware Q2E15 and Joyride-2368, good and bad

[Ton van Overbeek]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> 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
>

It is the same Bounce (and Bridge) under 8.1 and 8.2
(I am alternate booting between Update.1 and the current/recent
joyride/8.2 build).
In that case it must be some package Bounce is importing/using. Might be related
to the "No Sound  in 8.2" issue with both Bounce and Bridge.

Ton van Overbeek