From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 11 12:56:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C6037B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:56:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C2F43F85 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:56:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1BKuU8I003545 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:56:31 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id h1BKuPQ30649; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:56:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15945.25465.768071.583030@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:56:25 -0500 (EST) To: Marco Beishuizen Cc: FreeBSD alpha mailing list Subject: Re: Why is XFree86 on FreeBSD/Alpha much slower? In-Reply-To: References: <15945.23721.759825.313603@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15945.24538.794799.926276@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marco Beishuizen writes: > > FWIW, the AGP Permedia board in my UP1000 doesn't suck. > > > > Drew > > I always thought that graphics performance was the strengh of the Alpha. > But it seems to be the opposite. > > It's a lot slower than the Intel, but I don't think that it sucks so > much that I should buy another graphics board. I guess I'll have to live > with it. Buying another graphics board would not help (unless it was a 64-bit board; which would suck less). To get an AGP board, you'd need an AGP slot, which would require buying a new alpha. You should at least try your Matrox in a 64-bit slot. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message