Re: directfb w ATI Radeon
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:11:03PM -0400, Mental Patient wrote:
> tb.nospam@comcast.net wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:39:01AM -0400, Mental Patient wrote:
> >
> >Is the framebuffer accelerated with a Radeon [9700]? I got it to work
> >but it was very slow compared to not using it. This would make things
> >that spew lots of text (like compiles) take much longer, so even though
> >it was beautiful I preferred not to use it. Did I misconfigure it?
> >
> >
>
> Not sure, I'm running 2.6.0-test5. I haven't really had time to make any
> kind of judgement. I got the console to come up in frame buffer mode,
> logged in and thats about it. I'm using a similar card as yours. The
> console didn't seem overy slow, but plain text mode is probably still
> faster.
>
> As far as directfb goes, I saw on the web site that initial radeon
> acceleration support is working, however I still have a good bit of
> reading to do before I get gtk+ apps,ect working on the console.
>
The test is to run
% yes | nl
for say 30 seconds. VGA text mode was like 100 times faster for me.
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