From: John Zbesko <johnzbesko@attbi.com> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 21:48:11 -0500 Message-Id: <20020518025004.TPOI12519.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@there> Subject: [suse-sparc] Video Xwin Performance- I'm dazed & confused
I have a hand-me-down SS20. I'm running SuSE 7.3. The machine is used as my
home server (actually, more like just a router.) I'm willing to spend some
money upgrading it so that it becomes a more acceptable workstation for when
my family is using "my" i386 PC. But I'm dazed and confused about all the
different choices and options and don't want to buy something that doesn't
work or speed things up.
I'm told that xwindows runs slow because my SS20 has only 8 bit graphics and
that I could increase the apparent speed by upgrading the frame buffer. I
also read that perhaps I could "tweak" the system and maybe either get more
video memory or reconfigure my RAM (128MB) and allocate some to video.
The idea of getting a second CPU sounds neat, but I'm not really sure what
speed CPU I currently have. I've already upgraded to a larger hard drive,
though I'm not sure if I got one any faster than what I used to have. (Had to
find that SCA scsi adapter.)
Here is all the information I could find inspecting the insides:
Graphics - besides some video built into the motherboard (which I don't use)
is an add-in board with a LSI chip L1A7625 FS DAA, C49307.5 IQNNC9430. The
board also has what appears to be 8 memory chips on it: HM538123J-8 B0005990.
There is another chip labeled Bt458LPJ135 RAMDAC 505-9424
CPU - A sticker on the CPU module reads: 5012707000179 01Rev51 36-94. When
the machine is turned on, I see the message 1 X 390Z55 Serial # 3638673 ROM
Rev. 2.15
Memory - I have 128MB. There are 8 slots: J0201, J0202, J0203, J0301, J0302,
J0303, J0304, and J0305. There are also two smaller slots, labeled J0407 and
J0406, that are also labeled VSIMM support. There are RAM sticks with 18
chips on it in both J0201 and J0304. There are RAM sticks with 9 chips in
J0301 and J0305. There are no sticks in the VSIMM support slots.
Any thoughts, comments, or advice are greatly appreciated. Below are my dmesg
boot-up messages:
dmesg|more
PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2
Linux version 2.2.20 (root@SPARC.suse.de) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Nov 12 11:03:05 GMT 2001
ARCH: SUN4M
TYPE: Sun4m SparcStation10/20
Ethernet address: 8:0:20:23:17:92
Boot time fixup v1.6. 4/Mar/98 Jakub Jelinek (jj@ultra.linux.cz). Patching
kernel for srmmu[TI Viking/MXCC]/iommu
[0]: v[f0000000,f1000000](1000000) p[00000000]
[1]: v[f1000000,f2000000](1000000) p[02000000]
[2]: v[f2000000,f3000000](1000000) p[0c000000]
[3]: v[f3000000,f4000000](1000000) p[0e000000]
[4]: v[f4000000,f5000000](1000000) p[10000000]
[5]: v[f5000000,f6000000](1000000) p[12000000]
[6]: v[f6000000,f7000000](1000000) p[1c000000]
[7]: v[f7000000,f7f49000](f49000) p[1e000000]
Found CPU 0 <node=ffd67150,mid=8>
Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s).
Power off control detected.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 49.86 BogoMIPS
Memory: 125472k available (1292k kernel code, 3448k data, 128k init)
[f0000000,f8000000]
Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
Inode hash table entries: 16384 (128k), inode-max: 16292
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
IOMMU: impl 1 vers 1 page table at f7e40000 of size 262144 bytes
sbus0: Clock 20.0 MHz
dma0: Revision 2
dma1: Revision 2
dma2: ESC Revision 1
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
IPVS: Connection hash table configured (size=4096, memory=32Kbytes)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x54
fb0: cgsix at e.20000000 TEC Rev 4 CPU sparc Rev b [TurboGX]
Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.41.2.9
tty00 at 0xffede004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530
tty01 at 0xffede000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530
tty02 at 0xffedb004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530
tty03 at 0xffedb000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530
Sun TYPE 5 keyboard detected without keyclick
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 120000K size
loop: registered device at major 7
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: trying high-speed SPARC checksum routine
SPARC : 61.722 MB/sec
8regs : 38.100 MB/sec
32regs : 38.100 MB/sec
using fastest function: SPARC (61.722 MB/sec)
esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast)
esp1: IRQ 53 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast)
ESP: Total of 2 ESP hosts found, 2 actually in use.
scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST
scsi1 : Sparc ESP236-FAST
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-4XCS Rev: 1.01
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
Vendor: WDIGTL Model: WDE4360 CLAR04 Rev: 1.21
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371N Rev: 0280
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total.
esp0: target 2 asynchronous
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
esp0: target 3 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II]
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8496884 [4148 MB] [4.1 GB]
esp0: target 4 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8496960 [4148 MB] [4.1 GB]
sunlance.c:v1.12 11/Mar/99 Miguel de Icaza (miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx)
eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:23:17:92
eth0: using auto-carrier-detection.
eth1: LANCE 08:00:20:23:17:92
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5
sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4104
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 132920k swap-space (priority 42)
eth0: Carrier Lost, trying TPE
IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de)
sunmouse: Successfully adjusted to 1200 baud.
audio0 at 0xfd02c000 (irq 57) is DBRI(e)+CS4215(2)
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