On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:42 PM, erik quanstrom<quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > On Mon Jul 13 19:58:54 EDT 2009, j...@csplan9.rit.edu wrote: >> So, I finally got tired of slow desktop switching with the nvidia >> driver and thought I'd give vesa another shot. > > i have had trouble with vesa cursor in 1600x1200. generally when > i have trouble, the cursor won't move at all. one problem i > did not finish looking at were the spill-over bits in vga register 13. > > nvidia is slow, but have you tried with the newly-integrated mtrr or > the pat stuff? my pentium iv terminal is pretty snappy in 1600x1200x32 + pat > my amd terminal with a pcie card + pat is even snapper, until the screen is > read. > one of these days i'll figure out why the radeon driver is broken for me > and/or > integrate aki's double buffer. even with WT memory, that only speeds the > write path. > > - erik > >
I didn't seem to see any improvement after applying the mtrr patch... did you make any changes to the vganvidia file before compiling? I haven't looked at the 'pat' thing, I'll have to check that out. John -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
