Re: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 12 January 2004 01:34, Andrew Morton wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >There are no significant fbdev patches in 2.6.1-mm1.  There is a
>> > DRM
>> >
>>  >update.
>>
>>  Whatever it is, its pure speed on this system here, Andrew.  DRM?
>>  lemme see if thats even turned on.  Nope "# CONFIG_DRM is not
>> set" Doing a make xconfig, I see that if I turn it on, there is
>> not a driver for my gforce2/nvidia, so I naturally turned it back
>> off.
>>
>>  I do have VIA and agpgart enabled just above it, and over in the
>>  framebuffer menu, support for framebuffer and nvidia/riva are
>> both checked.
>>
>>  Anyway, something has made a huge difference in window switching
>>  speeds here, someplace between 2.6.0-mm2 and 2.6.1-mm1.  I like
>> it.
>
>Beats me.  Doing that vmstat measurement which Vladis suggests would
> be interesting.
I just found that the old standby, top, is apparently showing sane 
memory values.
---
Mem:   514720K av,  511360K used,    3360K free,       0K shrd,   
11468K buff
Swap: 3857104K av,   42292K used, 3814812K free                  
317328K cached
---
So at least one program knows howto get at the data.
-- 
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