kdrive performance

Damian Gatabria damian at gatabria.com.ar
Wed Dec 8 19:40:13 PST 2004


I imagine so. But what's the recommended solution
for the lightest xserver with support for as many
chipsets as possible? I'm trying to
build a package that will have to boot in low-end
generic hardware with limited (~64MB) RAM and no 
hard disk at all.


El mié, 08-12-2004 a las 22:26 -0500, Jim Gettys escribió:
> 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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