kdrive performance

[Damian Gatabria]

Thanks, but i've got one more doubt then:

What's the difference between using Xvesa
and Xfree3 with the "svga" driver? why
is Xvesa so much slower? As I understand it,
i'm not using any acceleration with Xfree3 either...


El mié, 08-12-2004 a las 11:20 -0500, Jim Gettys escribió:
> End of mystery.
> 
> Xvesa doesn't use the acceleration for most current chips.
> 
> You should be running a Trident specific server, for any decent
> performance.
> 
> Kdrive does not support loadable drivers at the moment; a server needs
> to be built for each different graphics chip.
> 
> So build the Trident server, and try that.  I expect you may be much
> happier with it.
> 			- Jim
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 12:42 -0300, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> > Well, sorry. I didn't know more than one
> > kdrive server existed. Looks like my knowledge of this project
> > is too poor to ask a decent question =oP
> > 
> >  I just followed the steps specified in
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fXserver_2fInstallGuide
> >