by Will Low » Tue, 15 Jul 1997 04:00:00
Has anyone found a workaround for the problem with the XF86_SVGA server?
Specifically, if you startx twice without rebooting, the console
freezes. Bug reports have been posted, and a few other people have
reported the error, but I'm wondering if there's a workaround/patch out.
Thanks.
Will
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~lowe/
1. S3 ViRGE/VX boards (was Re: Virge dotclocks - DS3D 2000 or 3000?)
I have been in touch with them. They said they've had no reports of
problems with the STB board, though they also didn't explicitly say they'd
heard it works.
I do have another couple of questions for the group on this, though: In
order to get SOME idea of whether this all will work, I pulled the Number
Nine 332 (S3 ViRGE, but not ViRGE/VX) board from my office computer and
temporarily installed it in my home system. I ran xbench on it, and
found that it got 163,363 xstones at 1024x768x(8 bpp) or 92,908 xstones
at 1024x768x(16 bpp), which is rather pathetic for a boad like this --
the ET4000/W32p card I've got now gets 150,707 xstones at 1024x768x(8
bpp) with XFree86 (124,389 with Metro-X). (This is with version 3.2 of
XFree86 for both ET4000/W32p and ViRGE.) Now, I understand that the
current ViRGE drivers are incomplete (xbench results are particularly bad
in the arc and text categories, but 1.5-3x better than the ET4000/W32p
results in other categories), so I've two questions:
1) How much better is the ViRGE/VX than the non-VX ViRGE?
2) How much are the XFree86 ViRGE drivers likely to improve? The
documentation says further acceleration is on the "to-do" list,
but roughly where can we expect to see overall performance
settle -- at 1.1x current levels, 2x, or what?
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