Re: New XF 4.0.1-4 debs available
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Rich Payne wrote:
> something to keep in mind is that it can take a LONG time for the server
> to start (at least on the machines I'm using X4.0.1). They've introduced a
> BIOS emulator to do a soft reset of the graphics card. This can take some
> time, several seconds on a EV6 600, so it may take quite a while on a
> slower machine (like an XL266).
Good point and definitely something that I forgot to mention. This may
also be the source of some of the problems that we've seen so far (could
be, at least). At first, I thought the reset was a strange and rather
dumb move, but thinking about it more, it really is an ingenious thing to
do :-) I can think of more pros than cons to doing this reset, despite
the time delay.
At any rate (I ramble and digress)....the XL will probably take FOREVER to
do this. My SX seems reasonably fast, but probably not as fast as the
EV6's are at doing even that task. So I guess it boils down to YMMV as far
as the delay time.
C
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