From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 11 13: 7:53 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 E8EAB37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:07:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp02.web.de [217.72.192.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A331543F85 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:07:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Lentfer@web.de) Received: from [213.157.1.105] (helo=floundjan.homeip.net) by smtp.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.95 #31) id 18ihct-00032R-00; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:07:35 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by floundjan.homeip.net (Postfix on FreeBSD 4.5) with ESMTP id 05551209; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:07:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost.localdomain (jan-linnb.lan [192.168.0.25]) by floundjan.homeip.net (Postfix on FreeBSD 4.5) with ESMTP id 6AEB01DE; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:07:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Why is XFree86 on FreeBSD/Alpha much slower? From: Jan Lentfer To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Marco Beishuizen , FreeBSD alpha mailing list In-Reply-To: <15945.25465.768071.583030@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 11 Feb 2003 22:07:28 +0100 Message-Id: <1044997649.695.7.camel@jan-linnb> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 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 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