Bill Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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]>
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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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Hmm..
You might be better off with X 4.0.3 because I have a Voodoo 3 2000 and I recently
tried X 4.1.0, because I had installed a 2.4 kernel, and the DRI dropped to half speed
and the server would die every hour or so. So I restored the 4.0.3 and used the kernel
module from 4.1.0 and the DRI was back to normal again and no more sig 11's. I also
run my DRI at 1280 x 1024 so this just seems to be limited by your processor speed. At
200Mhz 800 x 600 is probably the best you can do.
Michael.
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