Re: sluggish behaviour with native Xorg and mga(4)

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:05:53PM +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> after having switched a -current system running XFree86 to NetBSD 5 and
> (native) Xorg I'm seeing severe performance problems with mga(4): tasks
> like e.g. moving a window or scrolling down a page in firefox take
> several seconds to complete.  The system has a Matrox G450 card, BTW.
> 
> While trying to debug this problem I noticed that if I manually run
> `./configure [...]; make' in xsrc/external/mit/xf86-video-mga/dist and
> use the resulting mga_drv.so instead of the one built by NetBSD's build
> framework (i.e. src/external/mit/xorg/server/drivers/xf86-video-mga),
> then I _don't_ see those performance problems!  Moving windows etc. is
> as fast as it used to be.

This sounds like that xf86-video-mga needs also some special handling for
config.h to get some defines.

Bernd