Subject: Re: Text boxes in Linux
From: Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2000 - 16:59:49 CST
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 sterwill@abisource.com wrote:
> This isn't to say X is always slow. Well supported cards (like the
> Matrox Millennium and G?00 series) are very fast even on machines
> considered somewhat slow today (Pentium Pro).
FWIW, I have heard it alleged that the XFree86 v4.0 drivers for
a lot of recent cards like that Gx00 are a lot better optimised
than those in 3.x.y.
> Direct rendering architectures (like what will be in XFree86 4.0, and
> can be used already on SGI machines, and maybe Sun machines) can skip
> the network transport, and let code essentially call graphics hardware
> primative routines directly.
But only really for 3D.
Matthew.
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