Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 03:27:26 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Acceleration on Toshiba 4090XCDT Message-ID: <20020228112726.GD73010@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <1014898835.638.25.camel@rubeus.alfred.cx> References: <1014898835.638.25.camel@rubeus.alfred.cx>
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* Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx> [020228 03:20] wrote: > I recently picked up a Toshiba 4090XCDT, onto which I have successfully > installed FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE. > > Everything seems to be supported quite well (although I've not yet > bothered with APM), but the lack of acceleration in X is incredibly > annoying. > > It has a Trident 9050 in it, and I read somewhere that Trident are > bastards and don't release enough specifications for a Trident driver to > be written (to give acceleration). > > Does anyone know anything about this? I though I might see what the > general consensus around here was before I started fiddling with X4. Are you already using xfree 4.x? FreeBSD 4 ships with xfree3, and upgrading X might make a big difference, it sure has for me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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