From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 11 13: 7:40 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 BBE6037B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:07:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F2243F93 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:07:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marco@beishuizen.info) Received: from tsunami.bsd ([213.10.35.60]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HA5XCE00.HSB; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:07:26 +0100 Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:07:35 +0100 (CET) From: Marco Beishuizen Reply-To: Marco Beishuizen To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: FreeBSD alpha mailing list Subject: Re: Why is XFree86 on FreeBSD/Alpha much slower? In-Reply-To: <15945.25465.768071.583030@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: References: <15945.23721.759825.313603@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15945.24538.794799.926276@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15945.25465.768071.583030@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> FreeBSD: Homepage: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 11 Feb 2003, the wise Andrew Gallatin spoke, and said: > > 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 Originally the alpha had a PowerStorm sitting in the two 64 bit slots. Unfortunately that card isn't supported in XFree86. I'm curious how it performs. When I replaced the PowerStorm I did try the Matrox in the 64 bit slots but it didn't boot. It booted in the 32 bit slot, so I left it there. Marco -- If God had intended Man to Watch TV, He would have given him Rabbit Ears. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message