Re: XF86 and full-screen graphical console apps

[Andres Tarallo <atarallo@chasque.apc.org>]

Magnus Norddahl wrote:

> I'm sorry to say so, but XFree86's acceleration is a bit of a joke. They do
> not even have hardware accelerated XCopyImage blits. All Pixmaps are stored
> in system memory, _NOT_ taking advantage of your up to 12 mb of ram onboard.
> No support for simple things such as color keying (transparency). Using the
> doublebuffering extension does not give any speed improvements, etc etc.
> The only things that's accelerated in XFree86 is lines, cursors and fonts!
> Nothing worth yelling "hurra" when trying to get some speed in games...

            Do you know if the commercial X servers provide some sort of
aceleration?

            Bye
                                                Andres