what does xlibmesa-dri provide?

2004-03-02 Thread Nano Nano
I'm running XFree 4.3 from SID with the FGLRX drivers from ATI. My OpenGL is working *very* well. Obviously a non-tainted kernel would be preferable, but framerate is God. Would xlibmesa-dri provide (1) additional, (2) alternate, or (3) orthogonal functionality? Is it the open source "OpenGL-

nice xserver

2004-02-23 Thread Nano Nano
Last summer there was a priority=low debconf question to nice -10 the X server. It appears to be gone. I ask because in "top" XFree86 seems to be one of the top programs. Where did it go and do I want it?

Nice Value

2004-02-06 Thread Nano Nano
Several months back there was a Debconf question adjusting the Nice value of X, but I haven't seen it lately. Should I expect SID's X with ATI's propritary drivers with a Radeon 9700 to use (a) low resources relative to a big compile job in an X-terminal or (b) moderate resources. I checked top