On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Brian S. Julin wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > BTW: Is the svgalib-target ready again? It got frame-support just one week
> > before code freeze. This change works for me using the svgalib-vga-driver,
> > but it crashs, when using svgalib-rage-driver. IIRC, the frame-support is
> > not finished. We should either finish or readd it after final release.
> > Opinions?
>
> Hmm... right you are, it never did get finished/tested. IMO we should just
> put a commented line in that disables frame support by rejecting it during
> checkmode.
There is another issue with the svgalib-target I found, when exiting.
After I started any <demo>-program, there is always running a second
lt-<demo>-program. When exiting, the lt-<demo> one doesn't exist. It
allocates more and more memory until it is killed by the kernel. Then I
get my console back.
> > Now, when I run GGI on X (XF86 4.0.3) it is very very slow. Have I found a
> > locking bug in the X-target or in XF86? Xlib-target works fine for me.
>
> It has always been slow for me, but then, I do run it over a network :-).
> Maybe X is just plain slow? :-)
Have you ever run GGI on X-target and having XF86 3.x.x as X-server?
It is _much_ faster.
CU,
Christoph Egger
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