Have you tried Metro-X? I have had good luck with their server in the
past, however I haven't tried it on a laptop. Improvements you should see
are mostly speed and smoothness of motion.
> R_Yeo wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I've posted to the newbie list but haven't got an answer, so hopefully
> > someone can help here.
> >
> > I have one of those NeoMagic graphics cards with 2.5Mb RAM running on a
> > notebook(KDE1.1.1 & Mandrake6.0). I have tried to use the XFCom servers
> > available from Redhat's site. Only thing it has done for me is disable
> > my backspace and delete keys. Have tried stty erase to no avail. The
> > only solution was to use ^H, so I went back to the XFree SVGA as I could
> > not see any difference.
> >
> > Then I tried using the demo version of Accelerated X. Again, no
> > difference, so I got out of my KDE session and tried to startx again.
> > THe X server refuses to start with a message like "Authentication
> > Failed". The only solution was to uninstall Accel X.
> >
> > My two questions are:
> >
> > What improvements do I expect to see over a generic (SVGA) server?
> > Has anobody got any ideas on the problem I encountered with the Accel X
> > ? If there is a real performance boost(presuming I can get it working)
> > , I would like to get the Accel X package.
> >
> > --
> > Ronald Yeo
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
