Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Michael Pfeuffer
At 11:47 AM 11/7/00, Anton Gyllenberg wrote: I use woody and upgraded to X4. The upgrade was painless and the X4 configuration tool 'dexter' worked nicely. I chose the 'neomagic' driver and a resolution of 1024x768. Everything seems to work correctly, but the new X is noticeably slower than the o

Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Gyllenberg
I experimented a bit, and noticed that setting DefaultDepth to 16, instead of 24 radically improved performance. However, I do want 24 bit color depth, and I am quite sure I had it with the old server. Hmm, strange. Is this really supposed to be this difficult? Anton -- Anton Gyllenberg <[EMAIL

Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread YH Gian
The 'dexter' utility would attempt to set the highest possible color depth and all for you. Thus if you are running a laptop with only 2-8Mb ram and have the color depth set at 24. You are going to experience some slow downs. What I did was to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file directly and set th

Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Michael Pfeuffer
At 11:47 AM 11/7/00, Anton Gyllenberg wrote: >I use woody and upgraded to X4. The upgrade was painless and the >X4 configuration tool 'dexter' worked nicely. I chose the 'neomagic' >driver and a resolution of 1024x768. Everything seems to work correctly, >but the new X is noticeably slower than th

Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Gyllenberg
On Tue, Nov 07 2000, at 13:22:50 +0100, Mathias Wiklander wrote: > I am not running woody, but I'll run X4 on potato and I'll do not notice any > slowdon i X4. I'll think it's alot faster. With the same display adapter: Neomagic NM2200? Did you do configure it in some special way? Anton -- Anto

RE: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Mathias Wiklander
> -Original Message- > From: Madsen Wikholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: den 7 november 2000 13:16 > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200) > > > Anton Gyllenberg wrote: > > > > I use woody and

Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Gyllenberg
I experimented a bit, and noticed that setting DefaultDepth to 16, instead of 24 radically improved performance. However, I do want 24 bit color depth, and I am quite sure I had it with the old server. Hmm, strange. Is this really supposed to be this difficult? Anton -- Anton Gyllenberg <[EMAIL

Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread YH Gian
The 'dexter' utility would attempt to set the highest possible color depth and all for you. Thus if you are running a laptop with only 2-8Mb ram and have the color depth set at 24. You are going to experience some slow downs. What I did was to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file directly and set t

Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Madsen Wikholm
Anton Gyllenberg wrote: > > I use woody and upgraded to X4. The upgrade was painless and the > X4 configuration tool 'dexter' worked nicely. I chose the 'neomagic' > driver and a resolution of 1024x768. Everything seems to work correctly, > but the new X is noticeably slower than the old one. For

Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Gyllenberg
On Tue, Nov 07 2000, at 13:22:50 +0100, Mathias Wiklander wrote: > I am not running woody, but I'll run X4 on potato and I'll do not notice any > slowdon i X4. I'll think it's alot faster. With the same display adapter: Neomagic NM2200? Did you do configure it in some special way? Anton -- Ant

RE: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Mathias Wiklander
AIL PROTECTED] _\_v > -Original Message- > From: Madsen Wikholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: den 7 november 2000 13:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200) > > > Anton Gyllenberg wrote: > > > > I use woody and upgraded to X

Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Madsen Wikholm
Anton Gyllenberg wrote: > > I use woody and upgraded to X4. The upgrade was painless and the > X4 configuration tool 'dexter' worked nicely. I chose the 'neomagic' > driver and a resolution of 1024x768. Everything seems to work correctly, > but the new X is noticeably slower than the old one. For

X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Gyllenberg
I use woody and upgraded to X4. The upgrade was painless and the X4 configuration tool 'dexter' worked nicely. I chose the 'neomagic' driver and a resolution of 1024x768. Everything seems to work correctly, but the new X is noticeably slower than the old one. For example, scrolling in netscape hurt

X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Gyllenberg
I use woody and upgraded to X4. The upgrade was painless and the X4 configuration tool 'dexter' worked nicely. I chose the 'neomagic' driver and a resolution of 1024x768. Everything seems to work correctly, but the new X is noticeably slower than the old one. For example, scrolling in netscape hur