X windows performance problem

Michael Cameron linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:12:10 +0100


Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote:

> Yup, worked.  But it doesn't seem to increase performance much.
>
> Thanks anyway,
> Marius.
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 03:11:03AM -0500, Rob Mayoff wrote:
> > | Is it safe to do this on my Thinkpad 560 with a trident 9385, my
> > | current settings is noaccel.
> >
> > Beats me.  Try it.  I doubt that it could damage your hardware.  You
> > should probably run "sync" first in case your machine crashes.
>
> --
> Marius Aamodt Eriksen
> Telenor Nextel AS
> : mae@nextel.no
> : marius@linux.com

Does it work or the option being ignored?  Does your Xserver really
support accelerated? Which X server (and version) are you using?

Have a look at Bill Mair's pages (I would be surprised you have ended up
on this list without having visited there first though).

http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp770x.html

Michael