Subject: Re: Graphics Quality in X
From: Robert Fout (rfout@damien.edu)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 15:49:53 MDT
Make sure you have an X Server that uses your video's hardware acceleration.
There is a build of an X Server that includes ATI Rage XX support (supports
the various kinds of ATI Rage hardware). I use version 10 of Xpmac.
http://www.linuxppc.org/news/xpmac.new.shtml
That made a HUGE difference for me, the opaque window moves were sooo much
smoother, as is scrolling.
Bob
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> From: "Waldo L. Jaquith" <waldo@waldo.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:01:49 -0400
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Subject: Graphics Quality in X
>
> Folks,
>
> I'm curious about how well X on YDL is making use of our graphics cards.
> Some screen savers that run quite nicely on my little $400 eMachines run at
> 1/10 of the intended speed on my iMac with CS1.2.
>
> I know screensavers are a stupid metric, but it makes good sense to me. I'm
> no graphics expert, so I don't know enough to look at the code and see how
> nicely it's using my 6MB of VRAM.
>
> Can anybody address this? Have I just configured my system poorly? Or this
> pretty much how X runs on a PPC?
>
> Best,
> Waldo
>
>
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