Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:56:25 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info> Cc: FreeBSD alpha mailing list <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why is XFree86 on FreeBSD/Alpha much slower? Message-ID: <15945.25465.768071.583030@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0302112147000.294@tsunami.bsd> 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>
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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
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