Re: [XFree86] 2d performance info

2003-12-07 Thread Ed Sweetman
Billy Biggs wrote: Hi Ed, I would rather discuss 2D performance than mga_vid but I am not sure where you want to go since your reply focused mostly on mga_vid. I'll explain my position a little better on mga_vid though, hope it's useful. I used mga_vid as an example of getting some more

Re: [XFree86] 2d performance info

2003-12-05 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Billy Biggs wrote: RENDER does not use dma at all, which hinders performance a lot i would think seeing as how render is used from anti-aliased fonts to alphablending and the more programs use either the more render's performance comes into question. How would RENDER use DMA? I know keithp

[XFree86] 2d performance info

2003-12-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
I'm fairly sure i've pushed XFree86 as far as i can without reprogramming anything for 2d performance. I've compiled all of X with -march=athlon-tbird -O2 -mmmx -m3dnow -ftracer using modified flag variables in my host.conf as well as profile compiling which i had X up doing my thing for over a

Re: [XFree86] 2d performance info

2003-12-04 Thread Billy Biggs
Ed Sweetman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My config settings for my matrox g450 are aggressive with agp enabled Does the open source driver use DMA at all? If it doesn't, do the higher AGP modes even help at all? and backing store enabled, Is this good or bad? i'm being held back by this G450

Re: [XFree86] 2d performance info

2003-12-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Billy Biggs wrote: Ed Sweetman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My config settings for my matrox g450 are aggressive with agp enabled Does the open source driver use DMA at all? If it doesn't, do the higher AGP modes even help at all? for matrox? I believe so. I'm sure some drivers do not but i'd

Re: [XFree86] 2d performance info

2003-12-04 Thread Billy Biggs
Ed Sweetman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My config settings for my matrox g450 are aggressive with agp enabled Does the open source driver use DMA at all? If it doesn't, do the higher AGP modes even help at all? for matrox? I believe so. I'm sure some drivers do not but i'd suspect

Re: [XFree86] 2d performance info

2003-12-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Billy Biggs wrote: Ed Sweetman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My config settings for my matrox g450 are aggressive with agp enabled Does the open source driver use DMA at all? If it doesn't, do the higher AGP modes even help at all? for matrox? I believe so. I'm sure some drivers do not but i'd suspect