On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:41, Jouni Tulkki wrote: > > I tried enabling AGP Fast Writes and the performance increased. But my system > also got unstable. After reading about Fast Writes I came to the conclusion > that it is quite a problematic feature sometimes.
Indeed, that's why it's disabled in the XFree86 driver by default. > If I understood right, Fast Writes works so that cpu can send data directly to > the graphics card. Wouldn't the fastest way to transmit data be to tell the > card to load the data from main memory? This way the cpu wouldn't have to wait > for the copying to finish and could something else at the same time. Possibly, but a problem is that the server doesn't receive the image data in the AGP aperture, so an extra copy is still needed. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
