On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Bill Patterson wrote:
>Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 12:58:35 -0400
>From: Bill Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Voodoo 2000
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>I just put RH7.1 on an old p1-200 (no mmx) with a pci Voodoo 3 2000. X seems
>much slower than it should be, and 3D is a slide show. What should I be
>looking at for problem areas? Gtop shows Gtop as being largest consumer of
>cpu time. Still the system seems unresponsive. Is Linux really this slow on a
>P200?
>
>As for the 3D part, DRI seems to be working, yet software rendering is faster
>than OpenGL.
>
>Any suggestions on how to speed up X, SDL, OGL would be appreciated. I've
>spent hours crawling though XFree86.org and DRI docs to no avail. I think I
>need some direction. *sigh*
You need to be using XFree86-4.1.0 latest from rawhide, as well
as the latest Mesa and kernel from rawhide also.
On a 16Mb Voodoo3 you need to be starting up XFree86 with a
maximum resolution of 1024x768 or less or DRI won't work.
You must use 16bit depth on a Voodoo 3 also.
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