Date: 11 Feb 2003 22:07:28 +0100 From: Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info>, FreeBSD alpha mailing list <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why is XFree86 on FreeBSD/Alpha much slower? Message-ID: <1044997649.695.7.camel@jan-linnb> In-Reply-To: <15945.25465.768071.583030@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0302112042190.294@tsunami.bsd> <15945.23721.759825.313603@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0302112129370.294@tsunami.bsd> <15945.24538.794799.926276@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0302112147000.294@tsunami.bsd> <15945.25465.768071.583030@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Am Die, 2003-02-11 um 21.56 schrieb Andrew Gallatin: > > 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. Hi, I can only tell from my experience with Linux on a PWS 500a. I just recently bought a ATI Radeon 7200, PCI, 32MB. With that card and XFree86 >= 4.1 you get DRI even without AGP. I tried to run it in 64bit and 32bit slots and did some testing with glxgears. It didn't make a difference what slot I used, I always got around 270 frames/sec. Playing bzflag gives me between 20-40 frames, depends on how many obstacles / tanks are around but I didn't test if the 64bit slot makes a difference here. I think ATI Radeon is the only chipset you can get DRI with PCI, maybe you should look out for one of those. hth, Jan -- Jan Lentfer System Administrator Molecular Cell Biology / AG Holstein, Darmstadt University of Technology, Schnittspahnstr. 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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