Re: [SuSE Linux] Help: Realy Slow Video with a decent card.
sanj (Sanjay Srikonda) wrote:
what's the version and name of the server you're running? maybe you need to set the horiz and vert rates manually? I couldn't get my Diamond 8Mb AGP card up and running correctly until I set these manually.
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Chris Martin wrote:
I am running xfree86 3.3.3, and have a STB Velocity 128. It seems that my video just sucks. It is just kinda slow: i.e., when running something simple like xscreensaver, on the cool 3d hacks, it draws like 2 frames a second or something. I am not expecting anything astounding as the card is not exceptional or anything, but everything seemed to have much faster video when I ran windoze. (last time I asked this someone told me to look at the xscreensaver site---no help since the documentation does not address this problem, and more importantly, I think this is not just a problem with xscreensaver but rather something with the way X is using/not using my card.)
Thanks. I am running the standard SVGA server, whatever version came with xfree86 3.3.3 (i am not sure). Where are you talking about changing refresh rates? I entered those for my monitor manually, but I take it that you are talking about something under the expert tab in SaX on the video card page. Let me know more plese. Thaks, chris - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
I had a real bear of a time configuring my Diamond Speedstar A50 AGP 8Mb card until I downloaded the SUSE version of the XF86_XSVGA file and used that instead. ALso, I did a search on using the keywords of the chipset my card has, and found a few people with the same problem, one of them had actually posted a workaround that he had used, and when I implemented teh same fix, voila, fixed and fixed. anjay On Fri, 01 Jan 1999 11:34:32 -0500, you wrote:
sanj (Sanjay Srikonda) wrote:
what's the version and name of the server you're running? maybe you need to set the horiz and vert rates manually? I couldn't get my Diamond 8Mb AGP card up and running correctly until I set these manually.
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Chris Martin wrote:
I am running xfree86 3.3.3, and have a STB Velocity 128. It seems that my video just sucks. It is just kinda slow: i.e., when running something simple like xscreensaver, on the cool 3d hacks, it draws like 2 frames a second or something. I am not expecting anything astounding as the card is not exceptional or anything, but everything seemed to have much faster video when I ran windoze. (last time I asked this someone told me to look at the xscreensaver site---no help since the documentation does not address this problem, and more importantly, I think this is not just a problem with xscreensaver but rather something with the way X is using/not using my card.)
Thanks. I am running the standard SVGA server, whatever version came with xfree86 3.3.3 (i am not sure). Where are you talking about changing refresh rates? I entered those for my monitor manually, but I take it that you are talking about something under the expert tab in SaX on the video card page. Let me know more plese.
Thaks,
chris
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Sure, I entered the vert and horiz refresh rate for my monitor, and then, through searching on the web, I came across someone who had posted a way to fix the problems I was having with my particular SIS 6326 Chipset (on the A50 Video card). SO, I implemented the changes in the XF86Config file and voila, everything worked. BTW, I tried xvidtune afterwards to see what I could tweak. I was only lucky that the program makes a *.bak file. When I restarted my XServer after using xvidtune, the same original problems came back. Apparently by making the changes in xvidtune and not manually through XF86Config I exceeded the video refresh rates. On Fri, 01 Jan 1999 17:24:45 GMT, you wrote:
I had a real bear of a time configuring my Diamond Speedstar A50 AGP 8Mb card until I downloaded the SUSE version of the XF86_XSVGA file and used that instead. ALso, I did a search on using the keywords of the chipset my card has, and found a few people with the same problem, one of them had actually posted a workaround that he had used, and when I implemented teh same fix, voila, fixed and fixed.
sanjay
On Fri, 01 Jan 1999 11:34:32 -0500, you wrote:
sanj (Sanjay Srikonda) wrote:
what's the version and name of the server you're running? maybe you need to set the horiz and vert rates manually? I couldn't get my Diamond 8Mb AGP card up and running correctly until I set these manually.
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Chris Martin wrote:
I am running xfree86 3.3.3, and have a STB Velocity 128. It seems that my video just sucks. It is just kinda slow: i.e., when running something simple like xscreensaver, on the cool 3d hacks, it draws like 2 frames a second or something. I am not expecting anything astounding as the card is not exceptional or anything, but everything seemed to have much faster video when I ran windoze. (last time I asked this someone told me to look at the xscreensaver site---no help since the documentation does not address this problem, and more importantly, I think this is not just a problem with xscreensaver but rather something with the way X is using/not using my card.)
Thanks. I am running the standard SVGA server, whatever version came with xfree86 3.3.3 (i am not sure). Where are you talking about changing refresh rates? I entered those for my monitor manually, but I take it that you are talking about something under the expert tab in SaX on the video card page. Let me know more plese.
Thaks,
chris
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