Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Jan 1999 14:07:27 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3 |
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On 1 Jan 1999 storner@image.dk wrote: > In <Pine.LNX.3.95.990101095353.9791C-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes: > > >Good. However, some interaction does seem to exist, as I've gotten reports > >of the Matrox X server being extremely slow to paint the screen with the > >new framebuffer code as of 2.1.132. That must be something else than just > >modeswitching. > > I sent in one of those reports. Some testing I did over Christmas revealed that > the problem exists ONLY when I use the Accelerated X server (v. 4.1.2) combined > with the matroxfb framebuffer console.
Xaccel is worse than XF86_SVGA in this matter, since at least XFree86 tries to save/restore video modes, while Xaccel insists on 80x25 text mode only.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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