On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:42:42AM -0600, Rob Rati wrote: > I have X installed on a PII-233 but have had to use the XF86_FBDev > xserver because the others won't work with the video card. I noticed > the machine was a bit sluggish, but I figured that was the processor. > Recently I was running top and noticed that the XF86_FBDev was taking up > about 42% of the CPU. Is this normal? Is there a reason the > framebuffer server takes so much CPU power to run?
Yes, it isn't accellerated like many other servers. It will make a difference to run it at a lower bit depth and a lower resolution. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
