kdrive performance

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Wed Dec 8 14:58:03 PST 2004


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...
> 

You might have had shadow framebuffer support on in Xfree86. That can
make a very large difference in the absence of acceleration.

(Don't know if there is support in Xserver for shadow frame buffers,
or not. You could use xorg-6.8.x.)

Regards,
					Owen

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