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From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: XFree86 2.0 Experiences
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Organization: University of Edinburgh
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 14:36:13 GMT
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I just installed the new XFree86 servers, and have a few comments and
questions.
(1) The S3 server runs successfully on my (local bus) STB VL24 board
(thanks!) and scrolling is nice and fast. Other things aren't so
fast, however. For example, xengine runs at only about 40% of the
speed that it runs on a local-bus ET4000 card. Can anyone explain
this?
(2) The 256 colour SVGA server runs on my Genoa 6400 board. But it
still leaves the screen wrong when it exits - lots of green characters,
presumably because the fonts aren't being restored. Does anyone
else get this? A perhaps related point is that after the screen
has been blanked (because it's idle), when it comes back there are
a number of black dots - perhaps the memory is not being refreshed
at some point?
Scrolling on the Genoa (not a local bus card) is still very slow;
probably nothing can be done about this. I tried the 16 colour and
monchrome servers, hoping they'd be faster, but
(3) The 16 colour server runs much slower than the 256 colour version.
(4) The mono server doesn't work at all. It puts the screen in the right
mode, but it's almost entirely white with a few vertical black lines
here and there. Some of these black lines are affected when the
(otherwise invisible) cursor is moved past them.
Does anyone have similar experiences or suggestions (other than "buy
a new motherboard and graphics adaptor")?
Thanks,
Richard
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