On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kevin Puetz wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > No, everyone should *not* use 4.0 yet, at least those with Mach64 > > chipsets. the ATI driver in the stock 4.0 source does not work on > > ppc, I have added PPC support and will get it into 4.01 if i get some > > more free time soon. > > Xpmac is so much faster than XF68_FBDev it's not even funny, but I don't want > to give up my wheel mouse :-( If you're looking for testers for mach64 accel, > you know where to ask - assuming I'm not busy wiping the drool off my > keyboard > :-) > > I wish you well on making that deadline... > Actually, Xpmac is very slow compared to XFree 4.0. If you compare Xpmac vs. XFree86 4.0 r128 you'll find xfree 4.0 (with a couple of my patches in Jack Howarth's RPMS) are over 200% faster then Xpmac. As for mach64, a local build shows somewhat the same increase over xpmac. Xpmac isn't really a "true" X server, its largely a big hack. ani
