Frimware Q2E15 and Joyride-2368, good and bad

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 03.09.2008 um 12:49 schrieb 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.


I noticed Paint is slow, too:

https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8285

- Bert -