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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:6444 comp.windows.x:60505 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!festival!castle.ed.ac.uk!richard From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: XFree86 2.0 Experiences References: <CFtHwE.5qK@festival.ed.ac.uk> <CFvyn1.732@aib.com> Message-ID: <CFxApF.C01@festival.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon) Organization: University of Edinburgh Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 15:51:13 GMT Lines: 37 In article <CFvyn1.732@aib.com> dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat) writes: >xengine is an irrelevent benchmark. Well, it certainly isn't a good benchmark, it was just what I had to hand. I was just interested to know if there were some things the S3 server was known to be slow at. >Your ET4000 may be running >with 0 wait states and your S3 with 1 wait state. This could be true; I'll look into it. >>(3) The 16 colour server runs much slower than the 256 colour version. > >No kidding. Guarenteed. Is that inevitable or will it get better in future releases? Naively I'd expect it to be twice as fast, since it has only half as many bits to push, but no doubt the incredibly stupid VGA interface more than cancels this out. >>(4) The mono server doesn't work at all. >Run it in "generic" mode. Ok, I'll try that. >Be happy with your S3 board. I am. Unfortunately it's not mine :-( Thanks for your help. -- Richard -- "Beat your ploughshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears" (Joel 3:10)