On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:58:53AM -0400, gaw zay wrote:
> I have agpgart compiled in the kernel not as a module, tdfx seems to be
> loading ok:
>
> (II) TDFX: Driver for 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3 chipsets: 3dfx Banshee,
> 3dfx Voodoo3, 3dfx Voodoo5
>
> it's followed by like 25 lines of lines starting with (??) TDFX: *
> ^^ wild cards
hmm seems ok
> I am recompiling the kernel with agpgart as a module for the hell of it ;)
:-)
> didn't change anything, glx is loaded, tdfx is loaded agpgart module is
> loaded /proc/mtrr has write-combining set, hm.
I am not sure if glx should be loaded... but mine seems to be loaded too.
> running benchmark with and without agpgart doesn't make any different in
> performance. hm.
strange.
> I get about 24Mps if I use a 'special' XF86config that has a TV out mode
> as the only mode set (640x480@16bpp) which is still slow.
I use 800x600@16 tv-out mode (slightly modified so it doesnt look like shit on
the monitor)
> I even tried nice -20 benchmark file.avi for the hell of it. slight
> improvement.
hmm I vaguely remember also having problems with slow xv on tdfx, but dunno
what helped. Perhaps upgrading the XFree86 binary to 4.0.99.2?
> argh. I dunno.
reminds me of sluggy freelance :-)
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