From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 7 12:46:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24778 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:46:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24523; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:45:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA10492; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:45:29 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199804071945.VAA10492@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter In-Reply-To: <199804071928.MAA18785@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Apr 7, 98 12:28:00 pm" To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:45:29 +0200 (MEST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, dkelly@hiwaay.net, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Amancio Hasty who wrote: > I hope that you have loaded the fastvid module to enable write combining > to your card . No I have not. > Write combining can quadruple your thruput to your PCI linearly mapped > frame buffer. Interesting, endeed, how do I go about to load that ?? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message