On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:11:03PM -0400, Mental Patient wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
