kdrive performance

[Jim Gettys]

Even better is to build and try out the server with support for your
graphics chip, rather than using the shadow fb code.
			- Jim

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 00:05 -0300, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> Is this so? So in Xfree3, svga could actually use acceleration.. 
> it would explain a lot... can anyone confirm this?
> 
> Anyway, i'm gonna try the -shadow option, and see if it
> gets better.
> 
> Thank you all.
> 
> 
> El mié, 08-12-2004 a las 19:33 -0300, Franco Catrin escribió:
> > El mié, 08-12-2004 a las 13:32 -0300, Damian Gatabria escribió:
> > > 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...
> > 
> > IIRC svga driver on xfree3 was a wrapper for accelerated drivers
> > 
> > Xvesa is just a driver for cards implementing VESA functions
> > 
> 
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