On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:30, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:00, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:51, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:43, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > > > You may be encountering a different issue ... (2.6 is usually overall > > > > faster than 2.4 here, though I haven't timed gnome-terminal > > > > specifically) > > > > > > it is not gnome-terminal but multi-gnome-terminal which is more like > > > xterm. So no antialiasing -> much faster. > > > > BTW, are you using AGP GART? You need to load the uninorth-agp module > > for that with 2.6, agpgart is no longer enough. The pathetic performance > > of PCI GART on newer machines might explain what you're seeing. > > Indeed not. But I just tried, no change in results...
So the server log showed it to use PCI GART before but AGP GART afterwards? > isn't agp needed for 3d stuff only anyway ? When the DRI is enabled, the GART is also used for 2D acceleration, so PCI GART will slow it down as well. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
