kdrive performance

[Jim Gettys]

Dunno off hand; but the code is completely different, in any case..  But
don't expect decent performance out of a kdrive VESA driver.

Go ahead and try out the kdrive Trident driver.
			- Jim


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 13:32 -0300, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> 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
> > > 
> 
> 
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