How come i receive the mailing list messages of other people with other topics? Is that supposed to happen? Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Hamilton" <mhamilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 10:13 PM Subject: RE: X on embedded Systems > What's the difference between running startx and Xfree86? I was able to > run Xfree86 pretty quickly. Is there a way to load Xfree86 then start > twm afterwards? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Vojkovich [mailto:mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:41 PM > To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: X on embedded Systems > > On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Michael Hamilton wrote: > > > Yes I am using startx. I am using a relatively fast 1gig Compact Flash > > (still slower than a hard drive though) and a ricoh EB1 1.4Ghz > > Processor. > > It might just be the time it takes to read the flash. That > stuff's pretty slow. But with 512 Meg of ram, I'd expect it to be > considerably faster the second time you started the server. > > > > 512 megs of ram. The ramdisk is 12 megs and loads the root file system > > and some libraries specific to our application. I contemplated putting > X > > in ramdisk but then ramdisk would be massive. Is there an alternative > to > > starting x without using startx? Again I am using TWM, which doesn't > > have very good documentation. It's possible that it is slow as well. > > startx is OK and twm is pretty lightweight. I suggest just > starting "XFree86" to see if that comes up faster (quit with > <ctrl><alt><bkspc>). If XFree86 isn't faster than startx, then > startx is off the hook. If you run XFree86, quit and then run > XFree86 again and it comes up very much faster the second time > then that implies that the flash is slow. > > Mark. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Vojkovich [mailto:mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:49 PM > > To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: RE: X on embedded Systems > > > > Are you using startx? If so, is it faster when running XFree86 > > directly without any clients? > > > > I can't recall ever seeing X start up so slowly. How fast > > is this CPU? Does this system have a disk drive? If so, are > > you using DMA? My first instinct would be that this is a disk > > problem or you're starting more than you think you're starting. > > Which XFree86 driver is this? > > > > > > Mark. > > > > On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Michael Hamilton wrote: > > > > > We use twm as our windows manager and X starts up and the X sits > there > > > for ages before an xterm or anything can start up. It's about 10 > > seconds > > > (consistently). > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Mark Vojkovich [mailto:mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx] > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:05 PM > > > To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: Re: X on embedded Systems > > > > > > Is starting X a performance problem for you? Without a window > > > manager it's only takes a second for XFree86 to start over here. > > > I thought this was fairly quick already. > > > > > > Mark. > > > > > > On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Michael Hamilton wrote: > > > > > > > Can you make any suggestions on making X start up faster (or > appear > > > to) > > > > on an embedded system? I have already tried tweaking the font > > > situation > > > > (loading them with fontpath rather than the font server). Is it > > > possible > > > > to preload X somehow before the UI comes up, perhaps early in > system > > > > startup or in parallel with other programs? > > > > > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > > > -M > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > XFree86 mailing list > > > > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > XFree86 mailing list > > > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > XFree86 mailing list > > > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > XFree86 mailing list > > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > XFree86 mailing list > > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
