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

[Andrew Morton <akpm _at_ xxxxxxxx>]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett _at_ verizon.net> 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.



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