kdrive performance

[Franco Catrin]

El mié, 08-12-2004 a las 17:58 -0500, Owen Taylor escribió:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 13:32 -0300, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> > Thanks, but i've got one more doubt then:
> > 
> > What's the difference between using Xvesa
> > and Xfree3 with the "svga" driver? why
> > is Xvesa so much slower? As I understand it,
> > i'm not using any acceleration with Xfree3 either...
> > 
> 
> You might have had shadow framebuffer support on in Xfree86. That can
> make a very large difference in the absence of acceleration.
> 
> (Don't know if there is support in Xserver for shadow frame buffers,
> or not. You could use xorg-6.8.x.)

There is an option in Xvesa

-shadow       Always use shadow framebuffer (May increase performance)

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