On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 04:55:10PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Just as a test, in uncommented > > #Option "progLcdModeRegs" "true" > #Option "progLcdModeStretch" "true" > > > to see if they did any difference and behold! it works. We do swap a > bit with 32MB of ram just by displaying a xterm! wow, memory usage > surely increased... I was used to get an xterm with fvwm2 on 8MB > machines :) Still, cool and thanks!
Yeah, 800x600 should work in 8-bit mode on the NM2070. But glad you got it working! I'm using mine as a serial console for a sparc64 system, and with 72MB of ram it successfully avoids much swapping! :-) > >Note: XAA acceleration was removed from recent X servers, that means no > >2D acceleration. There was never 3D acceleration (DRI/DRM) for this > >chipset at all. > > > Yes, 2D is gone athough EXA may work? With the Savage cards it has > been more or less fixed on linux. > > Riccardo There isn't a EXA backend for neomagic, not until someone writes one. -Bryan.
