Thanks. I knew about the Voodoo 3 limitations of course.
I've started digging through the 4.1.0 upgrade... A lot of dependancies to
install..... I suppose it it were all packaged up tho, that'd be called a
distro. hehe. Thanks for the help.
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 11:33 am, you wrote:
> --- "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Bill Patterson wrote:
> > >Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 12:58:35 -0400
> > >From: Bill Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >List-Id: General X Discussion <xpert.XFree86.Org>
> > >Subject: Voodoo 2000
> > >
> > >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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