ThinkPad 600X Experiences with F8T3

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 11:27 -0500, chris at idlelion.net wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:06 -0500, chris at idlelion.net wrote:
> >> Video:
> >> Upon opening computer (or really any Nautilus windows), the background of
> >> the window is blue, with a white box around each object.
> >>
> >> Small vertical line segments appear on the screen near the edges of where
> >> windows close.
> >>
> >> Dragging a window across the left edge of the screen and downward makes
> >> the right-most column of the screen show a tiny portion of the window.
> >> Dragging up-and-left or right does not produce the artifact.
> >
> > ThinkWiki tells me this laptop has a neomagic graphics chip.  Do you see
> > these artifacts when using the vesa driver?
> 
> Thanks Adam,
> 
> Yep. It's a NM2360 or NeoMagic MagicGraph 256ZX with 4MB. It worked fine 
> with FC6.

That's really bizarre.  The driver hasn't changed since then.
Presumably the server's just doing something different now?

Do you have X log files to compare from FC6 and F8t3?

> 1) How do I test the vesa driver?

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, change the word 'neomagic' to 'vesa'.

> 2) Is there a way to benchmark 
> performance? (If the vesa driver seems snappy, I'll just use that 
> instead.)

yum -y install gtkperf, and compare runs.  The vesa driver will be
completely unaccelerated, and in particular you won't get Xv, but it
might be fast enough for you depending what you're doing.

- ajax