On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 23:19, Brian C. Miles wrote: > What is this "leo" hardware you speak of?
leo = ZX or TurboZX framebuffer. > I've thought of installing Solaris, just to see if their X implementation > has some sort of acceleration for this hardware (i.e. to see if it's even > possible to get decent performance out of the hardware). As I understand > it, XFree86 4.x has no acceleration for the CG-14. Should I give up on the > VSIMM and try a leo? The low level leo driver in XFree86 4.2 source has several accelerated functions, and cg14 has none. If your system is limited by drawing speed, a framebuffer with an accelerated driver could make a big difference. Someone tried to sell three of these on eBay recently, and got only two takers at US$5 and $15. (plus $15 ship each). Another seller got $15.50 + $8 ship. At these prices an experiment is cheap. -- SP
