Re: [LIH] XFree86 Ver 4.0: installation

[Rohit]

> NO! All that the framebuffer offers is a linear
> mapping to the Video RAM of the gfx card, which is one
> of the salient features offered by VESA 2.0.

Using your system RAM. Am I right? There is a series of questions to
come now...

1. Does it map detected video RAM on to the system RAM?
2. In that case, total amount of video RAM would be limited to the RAM
   on board the graphics card?

> communication with the gfx card. It displays whatever
> we write to it. This prevents us from using the
> acceleration features that the card may provide - the
> reason for it being slow.

Right. You will tell me a couple of more things?

What are the BURST transfer rates and if at all, how are these different
from the sustained transfer rates when it comes to hardware
communications?
[It seems to me that burst rates are usually more than the sustained
rates - my own third grade conclusion]

Infinite thanks Nikhil,

Rohit

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