From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 11 13: 3:47 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 6232137B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:03:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD40943F75 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:03:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1BL3axg056662; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:03:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1BL3Zo3056661; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:03:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:03:35 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Marco Beishuizen Cc: Andrew Gallatin , FreeBSD alpha mailing list Subject: Re: Why is XFree86 on FreeBSD/Alpha much slower? Message-ID: <20030211220335.A56640@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <15945.23721.759825.313603@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15945.24538.794799.926276@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from marco@beishuizen.info on Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:54:15PM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:54:15PM +0100, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, the wise Andrew Gallatin spoke, and said: > > into the 64-bit slot (see the alpha hardware notes that Wilo > > maintains). But it will still suck moderatly. > > > > 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. The CPU is irrelevant if you don't have the bus bandwith to feed the framebuffer. > 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. I guess so, as AGP equipped Alphas are rare. (Hmm... Marvel has AGP... ;-) -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message