well, i have this in my XF86Config:
Section "Device"
Identifier "VCARD"
Driver "mga"
VideoRam 16384
EndSection
docs said that it autodetects the Chipset line, so
i don't need to specify it, i think it's like "mgag400"
so that should be all that xf4.0 needs to use the correct
driver.
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 18:12:50 -0500 (CDT)
> To: tom carlile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Patrick Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Patrick Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: mysterious slowness
>
> On Sat, 27 May 2000, tom carlile wrote:
>
> >
> > hi guys.
> > i'm observing a mysterious speed difference between two of my
> > linux machines.
> > one is a PII 300MHz 192MB running on a 66MHz bus with an AGP Diamon
> > Viper 330 4MB card, 2.2.14 kernel, libc 2.0.7, XFree86 4.0.
> >
> > the other is a newer athlon 700 with 128MB running at 100MHz (maybe
> > 133MHz) bus with an AGP Matrox G400, 2.2.15 kernel with libc 2.1.3,
> > XFree86 3.3.6.
> > both running the same window manager (sawfish).
> >
> > when doing things like moving terminals around, or various operations
> > in the gimp i notice that the athlon box is MUCH slower than the
> > pentium box. athlon vs. pentium arguements aside, 700MHz vs.
> > 300MHz should be a noticeable difference.
> > the athlon is recognized as a 700MHz by the bios. i'm not really
> > sure what i can check or tune to fix this. does anyone
> > have any ideas?
> >
>
> Are you sure you have the correct video driver / X-server (depending on X
> version) installed on the newer machine? Whenever I've had this problem,
> it's always been the case that the incorrect X server was being used.
>
>
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