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On 2003.05.25 17:20, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Willem,
Actually, you are in perfect luck, as I have tested an almost identical hardware configuration to what you have above! Unfortunately, you probably aren't going to like what I have to tell you.
The quick answer is that you do have a performance problem. One thing you can do to restore the performance of Cygwin/XFree86 (without fixing the underlying problem) is to use the Shadow GDI-based engine, rather than the default Shadow DirectDraw engine. You do this by passing XWin.exe the "-engine 1" flag:
XWin.exe -engine 1 -query my_remote_hostname_or_ip
This I tried immediately, and it worked like a charm -- the cygwin-xfree performance is now very good.
The real solution, or lack thereof, lies below.
I have an Iwill KA266 with an Athlon 1.2 GHz chip, which was running Windows 2000 at the time. I purchased an ATI All In Wonder 8500DV... hey, wait a minute, I gave a very good writeup of this in the archives:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-12/msg00049.html
So, I suspect that if you run any video playback software or anything else that uses DiretDraw, you will see very jerky and slow redrawing, indicating that this a problem with your video layer, not just with Cygwin/XFree86. Try playing back a DVD or (if you have the All In Wonder) recording some TV and playing it back later.
I re-installed the ATI video drivers and the media-center, and you're
right, DVD playing is awful. I had actually not done that before -- I own
a regular DVD player too so I watch them on my TV -- I used the 8500DV to
watch TV while working on the PC, and that, as before, works just fine.
You have to upgrade to the ATI drivers, which took me about 4 hours to do properly until the jerkiness went away. You have to follow their instructions VERY carefully and you have to constantly check to see if Windows now thinks that the new drivers are installed.
How _did_ you get rid of the jerkiness? I have the latest drivers from the ATI website installed, and the device manager shows the correct properties, but as I said, the resuling jerkiness is horrible.
In the end, you might end up with a freezing problem like I had.
What I found earlier, is that you do not want to install the ALI (not ATI) chipset 4-in-1 driver on this combination. Totally unstable. The microsoft drivers for the chipset seem to do a fine job though. While a couple of hours is hardly enough to declare something stable, so far so good.
I ended up having to get rid of my ATI All In Wonder 8500DV, which was really a great card other than the fact that it froze my motherboard.
I may have to do that too, if I decide I care about DVDs (probably not) or
time-shifted video (PVR - which I do want to be able to do). Given that you were not able to get it right, I don't give myself much chance :-(
But at least for now I'm enjoying the remote xfree access to the other PC.
Thanks for your help. Willem Riede.
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