On Wed, Jun 28, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Graeme Nattress wrote:
I'm running Suse 6.4 on my Beige G3. How can I tell if X is getting accelerated? If it shows that it's not, how do I turn acceleration on?
Verify, which X server you are actually running by issuing the following command:
# file /var/X11R6/bin/X
On my box (a PC) it gives the following output:
/var/X11R6/bin/X: symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
SVGA is using accelerated features of your video card, so do most other X servers except for the FBdev (FrameBuffer) and VGA16 X server. Most likely you will be using the (unaccelerated) FB X Server. "xdpyinfo" also shows some helpful info about your X window system.
Hmm ;) No SVGA here. We have XFB_Dev and this is slow, yes. There is xpmac.rpm on the CD, but it is a mess to use international keyboards. The aty Framebuffer driver has bugs here and there, the acceleration doesn't work well. Thats the reason why we have no_accel in the Server options, for atyfb only. XFree4 (or Xpmac) will solve the problem. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...