mach64 video driver considered harmful

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:34:57PM -0500, george+freebsd at m5p.com wrote:
> My hardware:
>   AMD Athlon XP 1500+
>   512MB DDR memory
>   ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL AGP 2X rev 39
> 
> I can boot into FreeBSD 7.0 or 7.2.  When I boot into 7.0, I get Xorg 1.4.2
> and the module called "atimisc" attaches to my video card.  You can see its
> x11perf output at:
> http://www.m5p.com/~george/x11perf.7.0.txt
> Its Xorg log is at:
> http://www.m5p.com/~george/Xorg.7.0.txt
> 
> When I boot into 7.2, I get Xorg 1.6.1, and a module called "mach64" attaches
> to my video card.  You can see its x11perf output at:
> http://www.m5p.com/~george/x11perf.7.2.txt
> Its Xorg.log is at:
> http://www.m5p.com/~george/Xorg.7.2.txt

What is in your xorg.conf in both cases? Is the agp kernel module loaded?
 
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> In terms of everyday use (which for me means Terminal, firefox, and
> mplayer), however, it just feels much, much slower.
> 
> The two logs look largely the same, except for which driver is used.  The

That just appear that way, I think. There have been changes between Xorg 1.4
and 1.6. The ATI wrapper driver (in 1.6.x at least) detects the hardware, and loads
the appropriate driver, be it radeon, r128 or mach64.

Roland
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