On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Tim Ryder wrote: jawse >Has anyone ever used Xi accelerated x with debian for jawse >laptops? jawse >If so, is it really worth using a commercial x server jawse >or can I tweak xfree86 and get equal if not comprable jawse >performance.
i installed accelx5 on a slink laptop for shits&giggles not long ago. it is a Cyrix 75mhz machine with a onboard 1MB video(some C&T chip can't tell what kind) and (heres the kicker) 8MB ram! XF86 would not run(for some reason, even in 16colors) accelx ran good in 16colors although i could not get it higher. using fvwm95, (and only fvwm95 and a xterm) memory usage was acceptable, only 2-3 mb swap used..the machine has no network connection of any kind so its not of much use no matter what OS i have on it..but it was still impressive to see X running in such a crappy enviornment. check Xinsides site, depending on your videochip...accelx may be good to use..xf86 supports most chips althugh most are not accelerated..so xinside blows em away but depends on yer chip. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 8:33am up 195 days, 20:57, 1 user, load average: 1.10, 1.08, 1.06
