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From: roell@xinside.com (Thomas Roell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why *I'M* not happy with XInside's Matrox support (was Re: Sometimes you need X server source)
Date: 01 Apr 1996 09:37:46 GMT
Organization: X Inside Inc.
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In article <315d5ef6.0@sylvia.tummy.com> jafo@ariel.tummy.com (Sean Reifschneider) writes:

>   As far as performance, I've come nowhere near the 750K XStones that was
>   promised by XInside's advert, they must have been running some funky
>   mode...  In practice, the Matrox is quite fast, even when running 24bpp.
>   Certainly much quicker than my Mach64 with VRAM.  Both on a 133MHz P5.

750k were done it 8bpp, 1024x768 using a 2MB card. Use this scenario
and you numbers are reproducable. 24bpp will be roughly 3 times slower
than this. I can send you the /etc/Xaccel.ini ...

- Thomas

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