[plug] NVidia drivers and RENDER acceleration

[William Kenworthy]

Varies an awful lot
framebuffer is slower than console
console and X arn't too far apart
xterm is slower than gnome-terminal on gentoo
a screen session seems slower again, but I cant get figures to support
that yet
also need to check 2>&1 > /dev/null for timings as well.

Writing to a display seems like a bad idea when a lot of data is to be
written (compiling)

Was 2.4 kernel on distro day, couldnt get X up.

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 07:25, Scott Middleton wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 00:02, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > > Explains why a gnome-terminal session takes so long to start up.
> > 
> > Perhaps. I suspect that's more to do with the amount of extraneous crap 
> > GNOME-terminal is linked into, though. Try timing a C compile job under 
> > GNOME-terminal, then under xterm, though - you'll be horrified at the 
> > difference the display of the make output makes. I'm yet to try with and 
> > without RenderAccel but I suspect gnome-terminal will be a /lot/ closer 
> > to xterm when accelerated RENDER is enabled.
> 
> About 10 seconds on a 2.6Ghz machine :) Tested that on Distro day. I
> can´t remember if we used the 2.6 or the 2.4.22.
> 
> On a side note i just installed Mandrake 9.2, the first thing i noticed
> was the fonts were nicer but everything took longer to start up. Using
> the render option sped it up *alot*.
> 
> Regards
-- 
William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>

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