On Wed, 29 May 2002, Shane Walton wrote:
> I think it is safe to expect more from a commercial
> product, but I didn't expect to see the performance
> difference provided by Xi's MX Silver X server and the
> XFree86 X server. The difference is staggering, which
> makes me wonder if there is a problem. Let's get the
> specs out of the way...
>
> OS: RedHat Linux 7.2
> Kernel: 2.4.18 SMP (agpgart and mga included)
> CC: gcc 2.96 (RedHat flavor)
> MainBoard: SuperMicro P4DC6+
> Memory: 1GHz (RDRAM)
> CPUs: 2 x 2.2 GHz Xeon (512)
> AGP: Matrox G550 (32MB) 4x Mode
> Monitor: Compaq P910 (1280x1024@24bpp)
Are you using the mga driver from XFree86, or the one from Matrox
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/lnx_200.cfm
If you are using the XFree86 driver, are you using the Matrox supplied
mga_hal_drv.o hardware abstraction layer ?
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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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