Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 02 Jan 1999 14:41:36 +0000 | From | "Manuel J. Galan" <> | Subject | Re: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3] |
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Gerd Knorr wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Gerd Knorr wrote: [...] > > > I never had problems to mix the accelerated XFree86 Server with fbcon > > > (matrox mystique, both vesafb and matroxfb work fine). The FBDev Server > > > works too, of cource. > > > > 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. > > FBDev or SVGA Server?
SVGA server is very fast (but in my case needs sw_cursor option because of not being friends to fb) FBDev server is extremely slow and CPU consuming.
A directory listing under xterm is pathetically slow...
I think that Geert has added ATI-Mach64 acceleration to FBDEV and maybe the same is needed for Matrox.
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