Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:03:35 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, FreeBSD alpha mailing list <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why is XFree86 on FreeBSD/Alpha much slower? Message-ID: <20030211220335.A56640@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0302112147000.294@tsunami.bsd>; from marco@beishuizen.info on Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:54:15PM %2B0100 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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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
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