From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Feb 28 3:27:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A9637B402 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 03:27:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 36DEDAE279; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 03:27:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 03:27:26 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Andrew Reid Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Acceleration on Toshiba 4090XCDT Message-ID: <20020228112726.GD73010@elvis.mu.org> References: <1014898835.638.25.camel@rubeus.alfred.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1014898835.638.25.camel@rubeus.alfred.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Andrew Reid [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